Seizure (Paperback)
| Author: Robin Cook |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
ISBN-10: 0425197948
ISBN-13: 9780425197943
Sku: 36499251
Publish Date: 10/5/2004
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(in Inches) 6.75H x 4.25L x 1.5T
Pages:
448
Age Range:
22 to UP
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| From the Publisher: "Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential southern demagogue, whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies remotely associated with human reproduction. As the chairman of a subcommittee on health policy, he introduces legislation to ban a new cloning procedure that would take stem cell research to the next level. Dr. Daniel Lowell, the inventor of the technique, sees the proposed ban as a blow to his biotech startup, and to people poised to benefit from its promised therapies." The two formidable egos clash during the Senate hearing, but the men have a common desire. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his purported concern for the unborn, while Lowell's craving for personal wealth and celebrity overrides ethical considerations for patients' well-being. Further complicating the situation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed a progressive form of Parkinson's disease, which threatens his political future and leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. After a perilous attempt to prematurely harness Lowell's new technology, the senator is left with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy - seizures of the most bizarre order. |
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When an American senator named Ashley Butler is appointed to chair a subcommittee that aims to ban cloning, he sees a chance to defend the American values he holds dear. His opposite number is Daniel Lowell, an entrepreneurial M.D. with a new angle on stem cell research. As the two men come into conflict, the situation gets ugly--particularly when it's revealed that neither one has pure motives. Then things become even more complicated when Butler develops Parkinson's disease, and turns to Lowell for help....
When an American senator named Ashley Butler is appointed to chair a subcommittee that aims to ban cloning, he sees a chance to defend the American values he holds dear. His opposite number is Daniel Lowell, an entrepreneurial M.D. with a new angle on stem cell research. As the two men come into conflict, the situation gets ugly--particularly when it's revealed that neither one has pure motives. Then things become even more complicated when Butler develops Parkinson's disease, and turns to Lowell for help....
Author Bio
Robin Cook
A best-selling author of medical thrillers, Robin Cook graduated from both the Columbia University Medical School and Harvard University, and has worked in prestigious hospitals including the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. His interests range from real estate to basketball, skiing and tennis. Many of his popular novels have been adapted into successful television movies, and "Coma" was turned into a successful motion picture. He married his wife, actress Barbara Ellen Mougin, on July 18, 1979.
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