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Cargando... Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Genepor Masha Gessen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A really interesting look at genetic disorders from a very personal viewpoint. ( ) This was a wide ranging and thoughtful look at the state of genetics research and its application to genetically identifiable diseases. Ms. Gessen covers such topics as her own reaction to having the breast cancer gene and her options, the use of genetic testing among Orthodox Jews, and the state of pre-implantation genetics counseling/selection of embryos. Interesting reading. Gessen's book explores the new science of genetics and she goes all over the world to do so--from Israel to Russia and back to the US. The book was a very easy read and incredibly interesting. Gessen explores A LOT of ground in this book--she discusses Huntington's disease and getting screened for it, Amish and Mennonite communities, breeding domesticated foxes and many, many other topics. Interspersed with these topics are snippets into Gessen's own life--her finding out she had the breast cancer & ovarian cancer gene & her struggle to decide whether or not to have a mastectomy and her ovaries removed, along with a discussion of her adopted son's genetics and her partner's addiction issues. All in all, a very good, easy read. I am not at all scientifically minded & I greatly enjoyed Gessen's book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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(Publisher-supplied data) 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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