Gausemeier, Bernd (Editor)
Müller-Wille, Staffan (Editor)
Ramsden, Edmund (Editor)
Pickering & Chatto
Physical Details: xviii + 302 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
This collection of essays looks at how human heredity was understood between 1900 and the late 1970s. Developments are explored across three themed sections; concepts, practices, and institutions.
...MoreReview Andrew J. Hogan (2016) Review of "Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 743-745).
Review Sheldon, Myrna Perez (2014) Review of "Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 145).
Review Turda, Marius (2014) Review of "Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century". Social History of Medicine (pp. 623-624).
Chapter Gausemeier, Bernd; Müller-Wille, Staffan; Ramsden, Edmund (2013) Introduction: The History of Human Heredity. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 1-12).
Chapter Gausemeier, Bernd (2013) Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about the Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882--1945. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 13-26).
Chapter Wilson, Philip K. (2013) Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Construct. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 27-38).
Chapter Ramsden, Edmund (2013) Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S. Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 39-54).
Chapter Lipphardt, Veronika (2013) From “Races” to “Isolates” and “Endogamous Communities”: Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 55-68).
Chapter Bangham, Jenny (2013) Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Groups Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 69-84).
Chapter Germann, Pascal (2013) The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944--1956. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 85-100).
Chapter Suárez-Diaz, Edna; Barahona, Ana (2013) Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945--70. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 101-112).
Chapter Schwerin, Alexander von (2013) From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Durée. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 113-126).
Chapter Santesmases, María Jesús (2013) Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948--1958. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 127-140).
Chapter Chadarevian, Soraya de (2013) Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s--1970s. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 141-152).
Chapter Friedman, Judith E. (2013) The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 153-164).
Chapter Pemberton, Stephen (2013) “The Most Hereditary of All Diseases”: Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930--1970. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 165-178).
Chapter Paul, Diane B. (2013) How PKU Became a Genetic Disease. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 179-192).
Chapter Cottebrune, Anne (2013) The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c.1968--80. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 193-204).
Chapter Lindee, Susan (2013) Performing Anger: H. J. Muller, James V. Neel and Radiation Risk. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 205-216).
Chapter Cassata, Francesco (2013) The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948--53. In: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century (pp. 217-228).
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