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03272cam a2200397 i 4500 |
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19409825 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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US-DLC |
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20180523093250.0 |
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161216s2017 nyu 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2016044044 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250064349(hardcover) |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9781250123992 (e-book) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
Alfaisal Main Library |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
RB155.5 |
| Item number |
.K65 2017 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kolata, Gina Bari, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1948- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mercies in disguise : |
| Remainder of title |
a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Gina Kolata. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
St. Martin's Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 262 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested-at least, not now. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you'd inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution-not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma-fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. It's a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman-Amanda Baxley-who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family's destiny. "-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Medical genetics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Genetic disorders. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Genetic screening |
| General subdivision |
Moral and ethical aspects. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
MEDICAL / Genetics. |
| Source of heading or term |
bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Genetic. |
| Source of heading or term |
bisacsh |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical. |
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bisacsh |
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics. |
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bisacsh |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Source of term |
local |
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4 |
| Genre/form data or focus term |
Print books. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
BOOKS |
