The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Three Stories in the Making of a Modern Genetic Disease

By Alice Wexler

Book Overview

"Detailed and evocative. . . . Wexler re-creates a picture of a long-ago place where doctors lived next-door to their patients and where generation after generation of a community's most prominent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300105029
• ISBN13: 9780300105025
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"