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Blood Matters

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Blood Matters

by Gessen, Masha

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0151013624
ISBN 13
9780151013623
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New York: Harcourt, 2008 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, great copy.

Synopsis

In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision—what to do with such knowledge—Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Blood Matters
Author
Gessen, Masha
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Edition
First Edition/First Printing
ISBN 10
0151013624
ISBN 13
9780151013623
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2008
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Bookseller catalogs
HEALTH/MEDICINE/EXERCISE/ SEXUAL TOPICS;

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