His Brother's Keeper by Jonathan Weiner

His Brother's Keeper by Jonathan Weiner

Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine.

The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's -- diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of many more.

"The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium," Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings -- about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love.'"

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Jonathan Weiner is a well-known popular-science author who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his works. He is a former editor at The Sciences, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and many other newspapers and magazines. The Beak of the Finch, Long for This World, His Brother's Keeper, The Next One Hundred Years, and Planet Earth are among his works. He teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York.

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ISBN 13	9780060010089
ISBN 10	0060010088
Title	His Brother's Keeper
Author	Jonathan Weiner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2005-06-14
Number of pages	384
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