State of Wonder

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cetaps.publisher.cityUnited Kingdom
cetaps.researcherBispo, Jéssica
dc.contributor.authorPatchett, Ann
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T19:15:51Z
dc.date.available2024-09-13T19:15:51Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe novel follows pharmacologist Dr. Marina Singh, who receives a letter by another researcher – Dr. Annick Swenson – reporting the death of Dr. Anders Eckman, Annick’s colleague at a drug research site in the Amazon rainforest, and who is working on a mysterious miracle drug. Marina travels to Brazil to find out what happened, discovering that only a couple knows about Annick’s whereabouts. However, Annick eventually appears before Marina, and reveals to be working close to a tribe – the Lakashi –, in which women are able to bear children until the end of their lives by eating the bark of a special tree that grows in their land. Annick is conducting research on the tribe and the bark, so as to develop the mentioned drug, with the intent of preventing the onset of menopause. The bark, however, also acts against malaria. Annick is very protective of her research, as she fears that the Lakashi and their land would be persecuted and destroyed if the knowledge of the properties of the bark came to be known by the wider public. It is ultimately revealed that Annick used herself as a guinea pig for her scientific experiments regarding the drug, and, as an elderly researcher in her 70’s, she was still able to become pregnant; her child, however, is born under strenuous circumstances, and with severe physical deformities.
dc.format.extent368
dc.genremedical fiction
dc.genreadventure
dc.genremystery
dc.identifier.citationPatchett, Ann. State of Wonder. Bloomsbury, 2011.
dc.identifier.isbn9781408818596
dc.identifier.urihttps://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/126659
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBloomsbury
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb
dc.subjectdrug
dc.subjectpregnancy
dc.subjectmedical experiment
dc.subjectpharmacology
dc.titleState of Wonder
dc.typeBook
dspace.entity.typePublication

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