Book ID: CBB000952062

A Short History of Medical Genetics (2008)

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Harper, Peter S. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xi + 557 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Pickstone, John V. (2010) Review of "A Short History of Medical Genetics". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 317). unapi

Review Wilson, Philip K. (2012) Review of "A Short History of Medical Genetics". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 511-513). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Leeming, William
Barahona, Ana Echeverría
Bauer, Susanne
Björkman, Maria
Chadarevian, Soraya de
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Gesnerus
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of Medical Biography
Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
Publishers
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Miegunyah Press
Trafford Publishing
Yale University Press
Concepts
Medical genetics
Genetics
Human genetics
Medicine
Eugenics
Genetic screening
People
Bateson, William
Cabral de Almeida, José Carlos
Danks, David Miles
Darwin, Charles Robert
Delbrück, Max
Galton, Francis
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
17th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Soviet Union
Australia
Canada
Institutions
Royal Society of London
World Health Organization (WHO)
Swedish Sterilization Act of 1941
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