Mercies in disguise, a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them, Gina Kolata
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Mercies in disguise, a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them, Gina Kolata
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Main title
Mercies in disguise
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976177526
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Gina Kolata
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a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them
Summary
Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution--not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma--fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process
Table Of Contents
Part I: A disease. The prophecy -- "No goddamn bastard on earth has ever seen a disease like this thing" -- Revelation -- An uncertain inheritance -- Truth like science fiction -- Birthright -- Insomnia -- Naming the problem -- No return -- Tested -- Part II: Amanda Baxley: the next generation. A life transformed -- Options -- A foreign land -- The envelope -- Of two minds -- A unique way -- "We have no other options" -- Prescription fertility -- New lives -- Carrying forth
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