Genetics in the Madhouse The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Name: Genetics in the Madhouse
Author: Theodore M. Porter

Auteur: Theodore M. Porter

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Theodore M. Porter

Engels
Hardcover
9780691164540
05 juni 2018
464 pagina's

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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

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity

In 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. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for "feebleminded" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity.

In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science.

A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 juni 2018
Aantal pagina's: 464
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Hoofdauteur: Theodore M. Porter
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Editie: New edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 155 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 164 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 43 mm
Verpakking lengte: 246 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 916 g

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Categorieën: Wetenschap & Natuur

Geneeskunde & Verpleging

Geschiedenis

Psychologie

Geneeskunde algemeen

Klinische & Interne geneeskunde

Preklinische geneeskunde

Wetenschap algemeen

Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde

Ziekten & Aandoeningen

Medische genetica

Geschiedenis van de wetenschap

Congenitale aandoeningen

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Taal: Engels
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