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a moving suspenseful pageturner thats likely to become a classic of medical storytelling The Washington PostNew York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flawThe 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 testedat least not now But she had to find outIf your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if youd 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 possibleIn 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 resolutionnot 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 dilemmafertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive processA work of narrative nonfiction Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them Its 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 womanAmanda Baxleywho faced the future head on determined to find a way to disrupt her familys destiny. The brothers transcribed these tales directly from folk and fairy stories told to them by common villagers The Princess in Disguise 1812 A beautiful queen near death makes the king promise to marry only someone as beautiful as she The king resolves IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND. Warmer – disguise and deception. Why might someone wear a disguise? Think of three . reasons . 2. Task 1 – Who was the owner of the trunk?. Read the beginning of the text. Who was the owner of the trunk, a priest or a pedlar?. Chapter . 5, Student Edition. MR/Brown & Suter. 1. Learning Objectives. MR/Brown & Suter. 2. List the seven kinds of primary data about individuals that interest marketers. Describe the two basic means of obtaining primary data. A . mask. is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance, or . entertainment. . . Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical. purposes. 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