Genetics in the Madhouse : The Unknown History of Human Heredity /
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they point...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Some Words of Interest
- Introduction: Data-Heredity-Madness
- PART I. Recording Heredity
- Chapter 1. Bold Claims to Cure a Raving King Let Loose a Cry for Data, 1789‐1816
- Chapter 2. Narratives of Mad Despair Accumulate as Information, 1818‐1845
- Chapter 3. New Tools of Tabulation Point to Heredity as the Real Cause, 1840‐1855
- Chapter 4. The Census of Insanity Tests Its Status as a Disease of Civilization, 1807‐1851
- PART II. Tabular Reason
- Chapter 5. French Alienists Call Heredity Too Deep for Statistics While German Ones Build a Database, 1844‐1866
- Chapter 6. Dahl Surveys Family Madness in Norway, and Darwin Scrutinizes His Own Family through the Lens of Asylum Data, 1859‐1875
- Chapter 7. A Standardizing Project out of France Yields to German Systems of Census Cards, 1855‐1874
- Chapter 8. German Doctors Organize Data to Turn the Tables on Degeneration, 1857‐1879
- Chapter 9. Alienists Work to Systematize Haphazard Causal Data, 1854‐1907
- PART III. A Data Science of Human Heredity
- Chapter 10. The Human Science of Heredity Takes On a British Crisis of Feeblemindedness, 1884‐1910
- Chapter 11. Genetic Ratios and Medical Numbers Give Rise to Big Data Ambitions in America, 1902‐1920
- Chapter 12. German Doctors Link Genetics to Rigorous Disease Categories Then Settle for Statistics, 1895‐1920
- Chapter 13. Psychiatric Geneticists Create Colossal Databases, Some with Horrifying Purposes, 1920‐1939
- Aftermath. Data Science, Human Genetics, and History
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index