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20150716093450.0 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
PINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
20050927125 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0060010088 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Weiner, Jonathan. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
His brother's keeper : |
| Remainder of title |
one family's journey to the edge of medicine / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Jonathan Weiner. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Ecco pbk. ed. |
| 260 0# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Ecco, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2005, c2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
356 p., 14 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
From Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch, comes His Brother's Keeper-the story of a young entrepreneur who gambles ont he risky science of gene therapy to try to save his brother's life. Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS-Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's-diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of man more. It turns out that the author has a personal stake in the story as well. When he met the Heywood brothers, his own mother 2was dying of a rare nerve-death disease. The Heywoods' gene therapist offered to try to save her, too. "The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium," Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings-about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love.' |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Heywood, Stephen, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1969- |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Heywood, Jamie. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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Patients |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
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Biography. |
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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Patients |
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Family relationships. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Brothers. |
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Genetic engineering. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Biotechnology. |
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