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| Introduction: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century |
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Part I Constructing Surveys of Heredity |
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1 Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882--1945 |
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2 Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs |
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3 Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S. Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability |
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Part II Blood and Populations |
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4 From `Races' to `Isolates' and `Endogamous Communities': Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s |
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5 Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Group Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II |
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6 The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944--56 |
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7 Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945--70 |
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Part III Human Heredity in the Laboratory |
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8 From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Duree |
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9 Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estacion Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948--58 |
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10 Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s--1970s |
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Part IV Understanding and Managing Disease |
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11 The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World |
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12 `The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930--70 |
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13 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease |
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Part V Reconstructing Discipline(s) |
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14 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c. 1968--80 |
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15 Performing Anger: H.J. Muller, James V Neel and Radiation Risk |
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16 The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948--53 |
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| Notes |
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| Index |
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