Blood Matters
Title | Blood Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Masha Gessen |
Publisher | HMH |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2009-11-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0547427549 |
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing. Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ovaries or living with the likelihood of one day developing cancer. As Gessen wrestled with her own health decisions, she sought more information about the implications of genetic testing from a variety of sources—ranging from others faced with her same dilemma to medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. With concerns both practical and philosophical, personal and societal, her inquiry led her across the globe, with stops in Israel, Russia, Austria, and the United States. Weaving her own story into her journalistic research, Gessen offers insight into how knowledge that was once unimaginable now shapes our lives. Blood Matters explores not only the decisions we must make in our physical and emotional health, but also the ethical choices we face when choosing spouses or having children. “Valuable reading to almost anyone facing a huge health decision, not only for the literary commiseration it offers, but also for the inspired example of medical sleuthing on one’s own behalf that it provides. Gessen keeps an inflammatory topic at room temperature, writing elegantly and without self pity.” —The New York Times Book Review
Blood Matters
Title | Blood Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Lander |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2018-05-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812250214 |
Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.
Blood Matters
Title | Blood Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Erik March Zissu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 167 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317795113 |
First Published in 2002. This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood.
Blood Matters
Title | Blood Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Marie Bonet |
Publisher | Strategic Book Publishing |
Total Pages | 173 |
Release | 2013-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1625165501 |
One day she has a family, the next day she doesn't. When a distant relative invites Fame to England for a visit and she innocently accepts, life really gets interesting. From Scotland Yard, to one of the most sacred places on earth, to one of the darkest places on earth, Fame is experiencing the adventure of her life. Little does Fame know that she is really on a quest to find the truth and her destiny. As her fate hangs in the balance, she discovers secrets from the 1850s about her own family and the identity of Jack the Ripper, then ... well, you have to read Blood Matters to find out. Combine the original Dark Shadows with Twilight and Sherlock Holmes, season with a little bit of Ghost Hunters, and you get Blood Matters.
Blood Matters
Title | Blood Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Masha Gessen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2009-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780156033312 |
Describes how advanced genetic testing led to the author's discovery that she was predisposed to ovarian and breast cancer and examines how genetic data shapes the decisions people make and their personal sense of identity.
Matters of the Blood
Title | Matters of the Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Lima |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2009-08-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781439175439 |
If you thought your family was strange... Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.
Blood and Kinship
Title | Blood and Kinship PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher H. Johnson |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857457500 |
The word “blood” awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.