Written by 30 authors from all over the world, this book provides a unique overview of exciting discoveries and surprising developments in human genetics over the last 50 years.
The individual contributions, based on seven international workshops on the history of human genetics, cover a diverse range of topics, including the early years of the discipline, gene mapping and diagnostics. Further, they discuss the status quo of human genetics in different countries and highlight the value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics.
Introduction.- Part I: Workshops on the History of Human Genetics.- The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 20032015.- Part II: Beginning of Human Genetics.- Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy.- Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics to the British Medical Community 19001910.- Part III: Genetics and Medicine.- Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification at the US Eugenics Record Office.- Aldred Scott Warthins Family G: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (18951940).- Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism.- The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing Radical Reductionism.- A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics.- Part IV: Countries.- Natures Laboratories of Human Genetics : Alpine Isolates, Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 19201970.- Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization.- Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as an Applied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 19451975.- Herbert Bach (19261996): One of the Pioneers of Human Genetics in East Germany (GDR).- lc.
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