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Title History of human genetics : aspects of its development and global perspectives / Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper, Susanne Doetz, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 576 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction; References; Part I: Workshops on the History of Human Genetics; The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 2003-2015; 1 Introduction; 2 First Workshop on Genetics, Medicine and History (2003): History of Human Genetics; 3 The Toronto American Society of Human Genetics Meeting (2004): Historical Session; 4 Second Workshop on the History of Human Genetics (2005): Preserving the History of Human Genetics; 5 Third International Workshop (2008): Genetics, History and Public Understanding
6 Fourth International Workshop (2010): The Early History of Human Molecular Genetics; 7 Fifth International Workshop (2012): The Biological Future of Man: Continuities and Breaks in the History of Human Genetics ... ; 8 Sixth International Workshop Glasgow (2015): Human Gene Mapping and Oral History of Human Genetics; 9 Conclusions; Appendix; Reference; Part II: Beginning of Human Genetics; Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy; 1 Introduction; 2 Origin of the Scientific Naturalistic Methodology; 3 Aristotle and Biology; 4 Epicurus and Naturalism
5 Epicurean Gnosiology; 6 Epicurean Chemistry; 7 Epicurean Biochemistry; 8 Epicurean Biology; 9 Epicurean Neurobiology; 10 Epicurean Psychotherapy; 11 Epicurean Human Genetics; 12 Epicurean Molecular Medicine; 13 Epicurean Microbiology; 14 Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Clinical Genetics; 15 Influence of Epicurean ideas in Renaissance, Enlightenment and Modernity; References; Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics to the British Medical Community 1900-1910; 1 Discussion; References; Archival Sources; Literature; Part III: Genetics and Medicine
Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification at the US Eugenics Record Office; References; Archival Sources; Literature; Internet; Aldred Scott WarthinÅ› Family G: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895-1940); 1 Introduction; 2 The Birth of a Medical Pedigree: Family G; 3 Heredity, Eugenics and the Organized Fight Against Cancer: Family G Revisited; 4 Conclusion; Epilogue; References; Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism; 1 Introduction; 2 Genetic Discrimination, Ethnicity and Race: Early Twenty-First Century Reports
3 Genetics and Inequality in History: A Historical Perspective on the Context of Doctoring; 4 Conclusions; References; The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing Radical Reductionism; 1 Introduction; 2 Nuclear Monopoly Versus Cytoplasmic Inheritance; 3 From Botany to Other Biological Disciplines; 4 Deepening Genomization; 5 Conclusion; References; A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics; 1 Introduction; 2 Uncertainty as a Fact of Life and Science; 3 Uncertainty in Medicine; 4 Historical Underpinnings of Uncertainty; 5 Empiric Studies of Uncertainty; 6 The Future
Summary 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. The value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics is also discussed
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 23, 2017)
Subject Human genetics -- History
Medical research.
Medical genetics.
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Human genetics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Petermann, Heike, editor.
Harper, Peter S., editor.
Doetz, Susanne, 1966- editor.
ISBN 9783319517834
331951783X