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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mukherjee, Siddhartha, author.     Subjects     Medical genetics -- History.     Heredity.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mukherjee, Siddhartha, author.       by title:      The gene [large type...         MARC Display

The gene [large type] : an intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee. by Mukherjee, Siddhartha, author. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016. Subjects Medical genetics -- History.   Heredity. ISBN:  9781410490087 (lg. print : hardcover) : 1410490084 (lg. print : hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. Description:  881 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. Edition:  Large print edition. Contents:  Prologue: Families -- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935 -- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970 -- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001 -- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005 -- Through the looking glass 2001-2015 -- Post-genome 2015- ... -- Epilogue: Bheda, Abheda. Requests:  0 Summary:  The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of heredity." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, temperament, choice, and free will, thus raising the most urgent questions affecting our personal realms. Above all, the story of the gene is driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds -- from Mendel and Darwin to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin to the thousands of scientists working today to understand the code of codes. Woven through the book is the story of author Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of schizophrenia, a haunting reminder that the science of genetics is not confined to the laboratory but is vitally relevant to everyday lives. The moral complexity of genetics reverberates even more urgently today as we learn to "read" and "write" the human genome -- unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children and our children's children.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology LT 616.042 Mu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Large Type LT 616.042 Mukher Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Large Type LT 616.042 Mu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 616.042 MU Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Large Type LT 616.042 Mu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Large Type LT 616.042 Mu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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