Genetics in the Madhouse
The Unknown History of Human Heredity
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2020
Summary
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 causes. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection of hereditary data in asylums and prisons gave rise to a new science of h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691203232 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691203237 |
| Author: | Theodore M. Porter |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 708g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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“Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society”
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About The Author
Theodore M. Porter
Theodore M. Porter is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Peter Reill Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton).
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