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

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

Alice Wexler

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors l...

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