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Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World

by David Ewing Duncan

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Publisher Comments:

Bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of what's hidden deep inside all of us

David Ewing Duncan takes "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science, building on award-winning articles he wrote for Wired and National Geographic, in which he was tested for hundreds of chemicals and genes associated with disease, emotions, and other traits. Expanding on these tests, he examines his genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his family's future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human.

David Ewing Duncan (San Francisco, CA) is the Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation and a frequent commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. He is a contributing editor to Portfolio, Discover, and Wired and a columnist for Portfolio. His books include the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (978-0-380-79324-2). He is a former special producer and correspondent for ABC's Nightline, and appears regularly on CNN and programs such as Today and Good Morning America.

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Journalist, radio correspondent, and noted science author Duncan takes readers along with him as he endures countless blood tests, brain scans, DNA analysis, and other tests to obtain a detailed profile of his true physical condition. This example of "guinea pig journalism" is both fascinating and thought-provoking because, in addition to detailing several aspects of his life and possible future (such as a computer model-generated prediction of a heart attack by 2017), it also deals with ethical and moral issues, health, medicine, and life in the 21st century. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780470176788
Subtitle:
What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
Author:
Duncan, David Ewing
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
Subject:
General
Subject:
Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology
Subject:
Health Risk Assessment
Subject:
Diseases - General
Subject:
Medical genetics
Subject:
Environmental health
Subject:
General science
Subject:
genetic testing
Subject:
DNA -- Testing.
Subject:
Genetic Analysis
Subject:
Genome.
Subject:
Human genome
Subject:
chemical testing
Subject:
Chemical analysis
Subject:
cellular analysis
Subject:
disease testing
Subject:
Disease prevention
Subject:
human experiments
Subject:
experimental science
Subject:
Environmental damage
Subject:
guinea pig journalism
Subject:
Popular science
Subject:
Biotech Nation
Subject:
Wired magazine
Subject:
Wired
Subject:
National geographic
Copyright:
2009
Publication Date:
February 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
370
Dimensions:
9.46x6.60x1.21 in. 1.34 lbs.
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