Genetics in the Madhouse The Unknown History of Human Heredity |
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| Author:
| Porter, Theodore M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-16454-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2018 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $62.99 |
Book Description:
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The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these