“This book is about collaborative science”, says Alice Wexler of her Mapping
Fate (University of California Press, $14.95, ISBN 0 520 20741 6). It’s
true in the most painful of ways: Wexler is exploring the genetic curse hanging
over her family, Huntington’s disease. In her search for answers, she lays bare
much of the complexity that surrounds inherited illness.
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