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

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

Alice Wexler

253 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease" When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the histor...

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