Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative, Jonathan Weiner gives us a remarkable portrait of science and medicine today. We learn about gene therapy, stem cells, brain vaccines, and other novel treatments for such nerve-death diseases as ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's -- diseases that afflict millions, and touch the lives of many more."The Heywoods' story taught me many things about the nature of healing in the new millennium, " Weiner writes. "They also taught me about what has not changed since the time of the ancients and may never change as long as there are human beings -- about what Lucretius calls 'the ever-living wound of love.'"This P. S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

His Brother's Keeper - One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine

"[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow."-Timothy FerrisJonathan Weiner-winner of the  Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America-examines "the strange science of immortality" in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from "one of our finest science journalists" (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner's Long for This World addresses the ageless question, "Is there a secret to eternal youth?" And has it, at long last, been found?

Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality

Jonathan Weiner (né le 26 novembre 1953 à New York) est un écrivain et professeur américain. Il a remporté le prix Pulitzer de l'essai en 1995 et le Los Angeles Times Book Prize en 1994 pour son livre The Beak of the Finch (en),. Il a également remporté le National Book Critics Circle Award en 1999 et a été nommé pour le prix Aventis (en) en 2000 pour son livre Time, Love, Memory qui met en scène Seymour Benzer.

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