Blood Matters

Masha Gessen

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/07/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Subtitled, "A Journey Along The Genetic Frontier". In 2004, Gessen found she had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. This is her memoir of her exploration of this unfamiliar and unsettling territory.

Publisher's description:

Explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about who we marry, the children we bear, even personality traits. This book helps us come to terms with the transformation genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become.

ISBN: 9781862079946