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040			_aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
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100			_aWeiner, Jonathan.
245	1	0	_aHis brother's keeper : _bone family's journey to the edge of medicine / _cby Jonathan Weiner.
250			_a1st Ecco pbk. ed.
260	0		_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, _cc2005, c2004.
300			_a356 p., 14 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_aFrom 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	1	0	_aHeywood, Stephen, _d1969-
600	1	0	_aHeywood, Jamie.
650			_aAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis _xPatients _zUnited States _xBiography.
650			_aAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis _xPatients _xFamily relationships.
650			_aBrothers.
650			_aGenetic engineering.
650			_aBiotechnology.
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