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Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century [Pehme köide]

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors
xi
List of Figures and Tables
xvii
Introduction: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century 1(12)
Bernd Gausemeier
Staffan Muller-Wille
Edmund Ramsden
Part I Constructing Surveys of Heredity
1 Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882--1945
13(14)
Bernd Gausemeier
2 Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs
27(12)
Philip K. Wilson
3 Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S. Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability
39(16)
Edmund Ramsden
Part II Blood and Populations
4 From `Races' to `Isolates' and `Endogamous Communities': Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s
55(14)
Veronika Lipphardt
5 Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Group Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II
69(16)
Jenny Bangham
6 The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944--56
85(16)
Pascal Germann
7 Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945--70
101(12)
Edna Suarez-Diaz
Ana Barahona
Part III Human Heredity in the Laboratory
8 From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Duree
113(14)
Alexander von Schwerin
9 Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estacion Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948--58
127(14)
Maria Jesus Santesmases
10 Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s--1970s
141(12)
Soraya de Chadarevian
Part IV Understanding and Managing Disease
11 The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World
153(12)
Judith E. Friedman
12 `The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930--70
165(14)
Stephen Pemberton
13 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease
179(14)
Diane B. Paul
Part V Reconstructing Discipline(s)
14 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c. 1968--80
193(12)
Anne Cottebrune
15 Performing Anger: H.J. Muller, James V Neel and Radiation Risk
205(12)
Susan Lindee
16 The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948--53
217(12)
Francesco Cassata
Notes 229(62)
Index 291
Bernd Gausemeier