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050	0	0	_aRB 155 _b.M85 2016
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100	1		_aMukherjee, Siddhartha, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe gene : _ban intimate history / _cSiddhartha Mukherjee.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2016.
300			_a592 pages, [8] pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 551-554) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: 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 -- Glossary -- Timeline.
520			_a"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 Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin to the thousands of scientists working today to understand the code of codes. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Emperor of All Maladies, Mukherjee draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea. Woven through The Gene is the story of 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."--Jacket.
520			_a"Magnificent, beautifully written, and riveting, Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene: An Intimate History illuminates the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children."--Lead into summary on Book Jacket.
586			_aThe Washington Post 10 best books, 2016
586			_aThe New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books, 2016
600	1	0	_aMukherjee, Siddhartha _xFamily _xHealth.
600	1	0	_aBuck, Carrie, _d1906-1983.
650		0	_aGenetics _xHistory.
650		0	_aGenes.
650		0	_aHeredity.
650		0	_aMedical ethics _xHistory.
650		1	_aGenetics _xHistory.
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