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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
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Author:
Lawrence Ingrassia
Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co.
Date:
May 14, 2024
Weaving his own family story with this sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers a tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thriller.
What The Reviewers Say
Deeply reported.
What emerges from A Fatal Inheritance is an evocative tribute—not to the lofty aspirations of biomedical science but to the fully inhabited lives of Mr. Ingrassia’s family members..
Ingrassia is a brave and honest writer.
A Fatal Inheritance thus forms testament to the power of scientific research, but also a stark reminder of how frustratingly incomplete our understanding of cancer remains, and of the very human costs of that incomplete knowledge..
