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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Presents the history of Huntington's in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges! this title uses Huntington's as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity! disability! stigma! and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. Zusammenfassung A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft disease”

Product details

• Authors: Alice Wexler, Wexler Alice
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780300158618
• ISBN: 978-0-300-15861-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Genetics, MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, History of Medicine, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Medical Genetics