Heredity explored
Subtitle: between public domain and experimental science, 1850-1930
By: Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt, eds
Series: Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology; Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780262034432
Subjects: History; History, 19th Century; Genetics; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From heredity to genetics : political, medical, and agro-industrial contexts / by Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt; title: The bachelor : a case of failed generativity in nineteenth-century literature and science / by Ulrike Vedder; title: Eugenics without eugenists? : Anglo-American critiques of cousin marriage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / by Diane B. Paul and Hamish G. Spencer; title: Asylums of hereditary research in the efficient modern state / by Theodore M. Porter; title: The emancipatory power of heredity : anthropological discourse and Jewish integration in Germany, 1892-1935 / by Veronika Lipphardt; title: Heredity before genetics / by Hans-Jürg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille; title: Natural selection, regression, and heredity in Darwinian and post-Darwinian evolutionary theory / by Jean Gayon; title: Concepts of gender difference in genetics / by Helga Satzinger; title: Pure lines as industrial simulacra : a cultural history of genetics from Darwin to Johannsen / by Christophe Bonneuil; title: Message in a bottle : the business of vaccines and the nature of heredity after 1880 / by Andrew Mendelsohn; title: Clonal patents : a convergence of heredity and invention / by Alain Pottage; title: The prenatal : contingencies of procreation and transmission in the nineteenth and early twentieth century / by Caroline Arni; title: The hereditary transmission of human pathologies between 1900 and 1940 : the good reasons not to become "Mendelian" / by Jean-Paul Gaudilliüre and Ilana Loewy; title: In search of the ideal population : the study of human heredity before and after the Mendelian break / by Bernd Gausemeier; title: Revisiting the origin of genetics / by Staffan Müller-Wille and Marsha Richmond; title: Transatlantic mutants : evolution, epistemics, and the engineering of variation 1903-1930 / by Luis Campos and Alexander von Schwerin; title: "Pure lines" in the laboratory : protozoa as research models in early twentieth century heredity studies / by Christina Brandt and Judy Johns Schloegel.