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Seizure - Robin Cook
Seizure
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What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of... show more
What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called on to chair a sub-committee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views it as a keystone to his political future. As a consequence, Dr Daniel Lowell - inventor of a technique that will take stem-cell research up to the next level - sees a barrier being raised before his biotech start-up. These seemingly opposite personalities may clash during the Senate hearings, yet the two men share a common failing. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his genuine concern for the unborn; while Lowell's pursuit of massive personal wealth and celebrity overrides any real considerations for his patients' well-being. Further complicating their confrontation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease - which leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. But in attempting to utilise Lowell's new technology prematurely, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy - causing seizures of the bizarrest order. Taken straight out of tomorrow's headlines, "Seizure" is a cautionary tale for this age when new biotechnological discoveries are pulling us ever further into a promising yet frightening new world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780330483063 (0330483064)
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.0 Abduction by Robin Cook
bookshelves: spring-2015, adventure, handbag-read, ipad, published-2000, seven-seas, e-book, tbr-busting-2015, abandoned, cardboard-characters, next, bettie-s-law-of-excitement-lost Read on May 09, 2015 Description: A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of...
Retiredbear
Retiredbear rated it
3.0 Seizure
When I started this review, I knew that I wanted to rate it 3.5 stars because it was good to a point. So, I started to list the pros and cons.Pros:The premise of the story is plausible.There is more than one storyline to follow.Robin Cook is a compelling author.Cons:I found myself skimming over num...
MRHill
MRHill rated it
2.0 Abduction
I've never read Robin Cook before, and this was not a good first start. The plot was rather shopworn -- humans stumble upon an utopian society only to discover it has what they consider a "dark side" and try to escape. It was like watching an episode of the original Star Trek, but at least those plo...
The Girl who Reads
The Girl who Reads rated it
2.0 Abduction
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Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it
3.0 Seizure
Sadly, this is not one of Robin Cook's better works.Cook takes on the controversial world of stem cell therapy. "Seizure" handily debunks many of the myths about therapeutic cloning (as opposed to reproductive cloning), but the characters seem trite. First, there is Daniel. He's the egotistic MD/P...
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