Experimental Man What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World

Name: Experimental Man What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
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ISBN: 9780470176788

ISBN-10: 0470176784

ISBN-13: 9780470176788

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Ewing Duncan

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Bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of whats hidden deep inside all of usDavid Ewing Duncan takes "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science, building on award-winning articles he wrote for Wired and National Geographic, in which he was tested for hundreds of chemicals and genes associated with disease, emotions, and other traits. Expanding on these tests, he examines his genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his familys future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human.David Ewing Duncan…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.46" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Experimental Man Index


Introduction


A fish and mercury story


Your host


Checkup with my internist (the plan and three rules)


Genes


Not a genetic virgin


Predicting the future


I'm doomed. Or not


A tale of two brothers


My gene pool (mother, father, brother, and daughter)


Rollo the Viking and me


My dinosaur DNA


You show me yours, I'll show your mine


Genes 'r' us


Ready for prime time?


Environment


Light my fire


Three-thousand-mile trail of blood


Idyllic childhood in Kansas, except for the toxic waste dump


Hotspot on the Hudson


Whose body burden?


Do my genes protect me?


Immortal cells bathed in mercury


The rise of envirogenetics


Brain


The incredible shrinking brain


Remember the moon over the mountain, forget the blonde


A brain half my age


High anxiety and the saber-toothed editor


Does my brain believe in God?


Greed, gambling, and why my brain loves Dodgeball, the movie


Building a new superbrain


Meta-neuroscience and the elusive whole


Body


Prediction: Heart attack in 2017?


Raging lipids


Bumps on my kidneys... oh no!


Life at age 122 (the gene that regulates forever)


Epilogue: Eternity


Experimental children


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary


Experimental man Online


Index