The woman who walked into the sea : Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease / Alice Wexler.
When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St. Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington's chorea, and tod...
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The woman who walked into the sea Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease /
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