Mercies in Disguise

A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

Gina Kolata (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
St Martin's Press (Verlag)
978-1-250-06434-9 (ISBN)

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The phone rings; the doctor has the results. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold brutal illness and you could find out if you inherited it, would you do it? Would you confront it, accepting whatever answer came? Or ignore it while you could? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an upstanding family in small town South Carolina. Many of them were doctors, but still, they are struck down by an inscrutable illness. Finally, they discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of providential events. Meanwhile, science, progressing for 50 years along a parallel track, handed the Baxleys a question--not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease. Science offered another dilemma--fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children.
A work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise tells the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when medicine could not help. It's a story of a family dealing with unspeakable tragedy without being driven apart. It is the story of a young woman--Amanda Baxley--who faced the future, determined to find a way to disrupt her destiny.

Gina Kolata (M.A.) is a writer and medical reporter for The New York Times. She has previously written five books and edited three collections of popular science writing.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	357 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
ISBN-10	1-250-06434-1 / 1250064341
ISBN-13	978-1-250-06434-9 / 9781250064349
Zustand	Neuware