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

by Alice Wexler

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300158610
• ISBN13: 9780300158618
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"