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Author Wexler, Alice, 1942-

Title Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research / Alice Wexler
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]
[(1996?])
©1995

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Description xxv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of the extraordinary biomedical research to find the gene and a cure, make Wexler's story both astonishingly intimate and scientifically compelling. Alice Wexler's graceful and eloquent account goes beyond the specifics of Huntington's disease to explore the dynamics of family secrets, of living at risk, and the drama and limits of biomedical research. Mapping Fate will be a touchstone for anyone with questions about genetic disease and testing
Notes Originally published: New York : Times Books : Random House, 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index
Subject Wexler, Alice, 1942-
Huntington's disease -- Research -- United States -- History.
Huntington's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships -- United States.
Huntington's disease -- Research -- United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 96016801
ISBN 0520207416 (paperback: alk. paper)