Story Within - Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity

Informationen zum Autor Amy Boesky is an associate professor of English at Boston College and author of What We Have: A Memoir . Klappentext All of their stories remind us that genetic health is complicated, dynamic, and above all, deeply personal.ContributorsMisha Angrist, Amy Boesky, Kelly Cupo, Michael Downing, Clare Dunsford, Mara Faulkner, Christine Kehl O'Hagan, Charlie Pierce, Kate Preskenis, Emily Rapp, Jennifer Rosner, Joanna Rudnick, Anabel Stenzel (deceased), Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, Laurie Strongin, Patrick Tracey, Alice Wexler Zusammenfassung Shares experiences of living with genetic disorders. This title includes stories that illustrate the complexities involved in making decisions about genetic diseases: whether to be tested! who to tell! whether to have children! and whether and how to treat children medically! if treatment is available.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Boesky, Amy (Associate Professor Boesky
• Assisted by: Amy Boesky (Editor), Amy (Associate Professor Boesky (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781421410968
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1096-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Diseases, MEDICAL / Genetics, Medical Genetics, Hereditary diseases & disorders, Hereditary diseases and disorders