Name: Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, how the World and i Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene (in English)
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Author: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9780156033312

portada Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, how the World and i Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Masha Gessen

Publisher

Mariner Books

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.4 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN

0156033313

ISBN13

9780156033312

Edition No.

Synopsis "Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, how the World and i Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene (in English)"

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

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Es autora del best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). Ha escrito diez libros de no ficción, su obra más reciente The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, ganó el National Book Award for Nonfiction en 2007; también ha escrito sobre los derechos de la población LGBTI y es considerada la principal activista LGBTI de Rusia.

Redactora en The New Yorker desde 2007. Ha colaborado en medios como The New York Times, The Washington Post y el Los Angeles Times.

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