Blood Matters（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a
mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The
discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but
exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and
different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in
the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal
decision–what to do with such knowledge–Gessen explored the
landscape of this brave new world, speaking with medical experts,
religious thinkers, historians, and others facing genetic
disorders. “Blood Matters” is a much needed field guide to this
unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic
information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our
physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children
we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps
us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic
information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are
and what we might become.

PART　I:　THE　PAST
　1  My Mother’s Fatal Flaw
　2  The Four Mothers of Jews
　3  The Post-Nazi Era
PART  2:  THE　PRESENT
　4  Indecision
　5  A Decision at Any Cost
　6  The Father of Hereditary Cancers
　7  The Cruelest Disease
　8  The Science of Matchmaking
　9  The Operation
PART  3:　THE　FUTURE
　10 The Future the Old-Fashioned-Way
　11  Biobabble
　12 What We Fear Most
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Key Terms
Notes on Sources
Index