Blood Matters: A journey Along the Genetic Frontier

By:

Masha Gessen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Granta 2007Description: 321 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

978184700783

Subject(s):

Gessen, Masha -- Health. Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects. Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects

DDC classification:

616.042 GES-B

Summary: In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. This is a guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory, pointing the way towards the radical transformation genetic information is engineering in our sense of who we are and what we might become.

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In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. This is a guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory, pointing the way towards the radical transformation genetic information is engineering in our sense of who we are and what we might become.

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