Mapping Fate A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research

Name: Mapping Fate A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
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ISBN: 9780520207417

ISBN-10: 0520207416

ISBN-13: 9780520207417

Edition: 1996

Authors: Alice Wexler

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In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of the extraordinary biomedical research to find the gene and a cure, make Wexler's story both astonishingly intimate and scientifically compelling. Alice Wexler's graceful and eloquent account goes beyond the specifics of Huntington's disease to explore the dynamics of family secrets, of living at risk, and the drama and limits of biomedical research. Mapping Fate will be a touchstone for anyone…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/30/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 319
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English