Human heredity in the twentieth century
By: edited by Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden
Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine -- number 15; Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine -- no. 15.
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; Brookfield, Vermont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781848934269; 9781781440513
Subjects: Human genetics; Heredity; Genetics; History; History, 20th Century; Vererbung; Genetik; Erbkrankheit
Description: This collection of essays looks at how human heredity was understood between 1900 and the late 1970s. Developments are explored across three themed sections; concepts, practices, and institutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The History of Human Heredity / Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden; title: Part I: Constructing Surveys of Heredity. 1 Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about the Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882-1945 / Bernd Gausemeier; title: 2 Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs / Philip K Wilson; title: 3 Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability / Edmund Ramsden; title: Part II: Blood and Populations. 4 From 'Races' to 'Isolates' and 'Endogamous Communities': Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s / Veronika Lipphardt; title: 5 Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Groups Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II / Jenny Bangham; title: 6 The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944-1956 / Pascal Germann.; title: 7 Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945-70 / Edna Suárez-Diaz and Ana Barahona; title: Part III: Human Heredity in the Laboratory.; title: 8 From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Durée / Alexander von Schwerin; title: 9 Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948-1958 / María Jesús Santesmases; title: 10 Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s-1970s / Soraya de Chadarevian; title: Part IV: Understanding and Managing Disease. 11 The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World / Judith E Friedman.; title: 12 'The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930-1970 / Stephen Pemberton; title: 13 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease / Diane B Paul; title: Part V: Reconstructing Discipline(s). 14 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c.1968-80 / Anne Cottebrune; title: 15 Performing Anger: H J Muller, James V Neel and Radiation Risk / Susan Lindee; title: 16 The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948-53 / Francesco Cassata.