Reviews

The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease by Alice Wexler

thischarmingamy's review

3.0

At first, I was intimidated by the prospect of reading a medical book, but Wexler does a fine job of detailing a sociological history of Huntington's Disease without being bogged down in medical jargon. This book gave me some excellent insight to the disease that has haunted my family for generations.

panxa's review

This book focuses on Huntington's Disease in the Eastern US, with forays into historical accounts of the disease from antiquity etc. It also focuses on the social effects the disease had on families broadly from the 1790s to the current day, with special attention paid to the effect of the eugenics movement.