Book ID: CBB000850402

The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008)

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Wexler, Alice (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Foreward by Nancy S. Wexler
Physical Details: xxiv + 253 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the early history of this disease and its cultural meanings as they changed from the 19th to the early 20th century.


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Review Ballenger, Jesse (2010) Review of "The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 295). unapi

Essay Review Chaney, Sarah (2013) [Essay review]. Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 291-297). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Weiss, Sheila Faith
Allen, Garland E.
Berez, Thomas M.
Bruyn, G. W.
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Crnic, Meghan
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
American Historical Review
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Central European History
Publishers
Wallstein Verlag
Concepts
Human genetics
Eugenics
Hereditary diseases
Medicine
National Socialism
Chorea
People
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Brinkley, John Richard
Dunn, Leslie Clarence
Goethe, Charles M.
Grant, Madison
Huntington, George
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Netherlands
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
Human Genome Project
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
UNESCO
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