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Title: THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO THE SEA
HUNTINGTON'S AND THE MAKING OF A GENETIC DISEASE
By: Alice Wexler
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0300158610
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Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 26 January, 2010
Pages: 288
Description: 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.
Synopsis: "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.
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Imprint: Yale University Press
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