Book ID: CBB000080313

The practice of human genetics (1999)

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Fortun, Michael A. (Editor)
Mendelsohn, Everett I. (Editor)


Kluwer
Publication date: 1999


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xiv + 216 pp.; notes

Description Contents: Allen, Garland E.: Modern biological determinism: The violence initiative, the Human Genome Project, and the new eugenics. Fortun, Michael: Projecting speed geonomics. Fujimura, Joan H.: The practices of producing meaning in bioinformatics. Jean-Paul Gaudilliere: Circulating mice and viruses: The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, the National Cancer Institute, and the genetics of breast cancer, 1930-1965. Keating, Peter, Limoges, Camille, Cambrosio, Alberto: The automated laboratory: The generation and replication of work in molecular genetics. Deichmann, Ute: Hans Nachtsheim: A human geneticist under National Socialism and the question of freedom of science. Nelkin, Dorothy, Lindee, M. Susan: Good genes and bad genes: DNA in popular culture. Novaes, Simone Bateman: Making decisions about someone else's offspring: Geneticists and reproductive technology. Paul, Diane B.: PKU screening: Competing agendas, converging stories. Zallen, Doris T.: From butterflies to blood: Human genetics in the United Kingdom.


Includes Chapters

Chapter Deichmann, Ute (1999) Hans Nachtsheim: A human geneticist under National Socialism and the question of freedom of science. In: The practice of human genetics (p. 143). unapi

Chapter Gaudillière, Jean-Paul (1999) Circulating mice and viruses: The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, the National Cancer Institute, and the genetics of breast cancer, 1930-1965. In: The practice of human genetics (p. 89). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hogan, Andrew J.
Adriaens, Pieter R.
Davidson, Eric
Block, Andreas de
El-Haj, Nadia Abu
Fujimura, Joan H.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Foundations of Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Indiana University Press
Concepts
Human genetics
Genetics
Genomics
Eugenics
Race
Science and politics
People
Bach, Herbert
Britten, Roy J.
Foucault, Michel
Günther, Hans F. K.
Penrose, Lionel
Struck, Bernhard
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Brazil
Argentina
Institutions
Human Genome Project
International Biological Program
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