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
Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper, and Susanne Doetz
Part I Workshops on the History of Human Genetics
The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History:
An Overview, 20032015
Peter S. Harper and Heike I. Petermann
Part II Beginning of Human Genetics
Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine
in Epicurean Philosophy
Christos Yapijakis
Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics
to the British Medical Community 19001910
Alan R. Rushton
Part III Genetics and Medicine
Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification
at the US Eugenics Record Office
Philip K. Wilson
Aldred Scott WalS'
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