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

by Alice Wexler

Book Overview

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... 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: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"