Blood Matters by Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen discovered through genetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer. As Gessen wrestled with a wrenching personal decision--what to do with such knowledge--she explored the landscape of a 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.Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, including The Man Without a Face, a national success. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, and a variety of other magazines, and she has won multiple accolades, including the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has worked as an editor for a number of periodicals as well as the director of Radio Liberty's Moscow Service. She is based in Moscow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780151013623 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151013624 |
| Title | Blood Matters |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 321 |
| Prizes | Commended for Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2009 |
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