The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

ISBN-13: 9780300158618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 278 str.

Alice Wexler

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"Detailed and evocative. . . . Wexler re-creates a picture of a long-ago place where doctors lived next-door to their patients and where generation after generation of a community's most prominent members struggled with a crippling disease."-Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal Alice Wexler is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research.