Table of contents for Blood matters : from inherited illness to designer babies, how the world and I found ourselves in the future of the gene / Masha Gessen.


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Contents

part 1: the past

1 My Mother’s Fatal Flaw 3

2 The Four Mothers of Jews 15

3 The Post-Nazi Era 57

part 2: the present

4 Indecision 71

5 A Decision at Any Cost 78

6 The Father of Hereditary Cancers 117

7 The Cruelest Disease 139

8 The Science of Matchmaking 166

9 The Operation 191

part 3: the future

10 The Future the Old-Fashioned Way 199

11 Biobabble 238

12 What We Fear Most 264

Acknowledgments 283

Glossary of Key Terms 285

Notes on Sources 289

Index 309



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Medical genetics -- Social aspects.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
BRCA genes.
Genetic counseling.