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

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

Yale University Press
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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.

Author: Alice Wexler
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780300158618
ISBN10: 0300158610
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | History
- Health & Fitness | Diseases & Conditions | Genetic
- Health & Fitness | Diseases & Conditions | Nervous System (Incl. Brain)

About the Author

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. She lives in Santa Monica.

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