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By Masha Gessen. 321 pp. Orlando, FL, Harcourt, 2008. $25. ISBN 978-0-15-101362-3.

This book, written by a Moscow-based journalist, is hard to classify. It is largely a personal and intimate story of the author's struggle to make decisions after she was identified as a carrier of a BRCA mutation — a mutation associated with a high risk of breast cancer — but the story is interwoven with a more general commentary on the difficult dilemmas that the rapidly growing field of genetic identification poses, both for individual patients and for society at large. The author's experience led her to an insightful examination of the many social and medical consequences of identifying people . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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