His Brother's Keeper

HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER details the efforts of a young entrepreneur to save his brother's life, using experimental gene therapy to combat the disease that is killing him. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner's book is both a story about the limits of medicine, and a personal saga of how far one man is willing to go in his attempts to keep his brother alive. Steven Heywood was diagnosed with ALS--more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease--when he was 29 years old. The author traces the lives of the two men since childhood, interweaving the stories of medical developments, including cloning, that took place while they were growing up. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.