Nonfiction | Medical eBooks

Blood Matters

by Masha Gessen

2020-04-23 01:38:32

Compare Price
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 wrench... Read more
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.  Less

Book Details

File size8.04x5.26x0.82inches
Print pages321
PublisherMariner Books
Publication date November 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780156033312
autor-image
Masha Gessen
Author
Masha Gessen is a Russian American journalist and the author, most recently, of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and Words Will Break Cement: The Pas...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 26.99
BOOKSAMILLION.COM In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy USD 18.99
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 26.99
BOOKSAMILLION.COMIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy USD 18.99
Available Discount
No Discount available

Related Books

View All
Optogenetics
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Hypoglycemia : Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses: With Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases.
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Assessment and Planning in Health Programs
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Borderline Personality Disorder
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Update & Board Preparation
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Are We Ready? : Public Health Since 9/11
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
eBusiness in Healthcare : From eProcurement to Supply Chain Management
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Rudolph's Pediatrics : Self-Assessment and Board Review
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Study Guide for Medical-Surgical Nursing : Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Phlebotomy Technician Textbook : Theory & Practical Fundamentals
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Golden Hill
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Urinalysis and Body Fluids for Cls & Mlt
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
100 Q&as about Spine Disorders
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine : Principles and Practice for Easy Reference
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Oral Medicine Secrets
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Breast Cancer : A Soul Journey
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
A Midwife's Handbook
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
FREE
A Special Mortality among Infants at Loughton, in the Epping Rural Sanitary District
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Condemned by Progressive Supranuclear Palsy : Virulent Cousin of Parkinson's Disease
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Making Myself at Home in a Nursing Home: Vanderbilt University Press Sandra
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS