Alice Wexler (1) (1942–)

Forgotten in this country, Goldman was an anarchist exiled to Russia. A feminist and a firebrand, she should be better remembered. This is based on her correspondence over her years in exile.

Although this book is ostensibly focuses on the intellectual and social history of Huntington's Chorea, it also contributes to a broader history of how evolving concepts of heredity, along with highly stigmatizing eugenic theory and policy, transformed the experience of genetic illness in the modern era.