When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient death of her best friend, she becomes determined to find answers—even if it leads her to a murderer, and even if confronting authority, using her wiles, and bending the rules to get justice risks her future in the FDA.
To unravel the puzzle, Carrie assembles a team: some talented post-doctoral fellows, a quirky pharmacologist, an unctuous chemist, and a skeptical FBI agent that she can’t help her attraction for. Together, they follow the data through the twists and turns, eventually uncovering that the Goldilocks effect in prescription drugs—the premise that people are inclined to seek “just the right amount” of something—is central to understanding these mysterious deaths. Through the twists and turns, Carrie and her team enter a race to uncover the truth . . . and catch a killer.
Grounded in real data analysis techniques, real science and pharmacology, and actual current psychiatric practices, The Goldilocks Genome is simultaneously a taut, race-against-time thriller and a condemnation of the psychiatric industry’s failure to implement genetic-based “personalized medicine”—a problem that persists to this day.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Chapter One: The Unsinkable Wendy Watanabe
- Chapter Two: Taking Care of Business
- Chapter Three: Adultery and Idolatry
- Chapter Four: Bye-Bye Love
- Chapter Five: Deals with Devils
- Chapter Six: Answers and Questions
- Chapter Seven: Adventures in Epidemiology
- Chapter Eight: Stitching A Pattern
- Chapter Nine: Origins: From Alsace to California
- Chapter Ten: Introductions
- Chapter Eleven: Raising the Stakes
- Chapter Twelve: Machinations
- Chapter Thirteen: Tacking & Jibing
- Chapter Fourteen: A Litmus Test
- Chapter Fifteen: Hopping Down the Audit Trail
- Chapter Sixteen: The Days of wine and Water
- Chapter Seventeen: A Moth to a Flame
- Epilogue: Step by Step
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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