The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
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Gewicht:
420 g
Format:
234x156x18 mm
Beschreibung:
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.
A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as “the witchcraft diseaseâ€