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Heredity produced : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Transformations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Heredity : the formation of an epistemic space / Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
- pt. I : Heredity in the legal context
- From clan to kindred : kinship and the circulation of property in premodern and modern Europe / David Warren Sabean
- Resemblance, paternity and imagination in early modern courts / Silvia De Renzi
- Continuity and death : literature and the law of succession in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Vedder
- pt. II : Heredity and Medicine
- The medical origins of heredity / Carlos López Beltrán
- Erasmus Darwin and the "noble" disease (gout) : conceptualizing heredity and disease in enlightenment England / Phillip K. Wilson
- Degeneration and "alienism" in early nineteenth century France / Laure Cartron
- pt. III : Natural history, breeding and hybridisation
- Figures of inheritance, 1650-1850 / Staffan Müller-Wille
- Duchesne's strawberries : between grower's practices and academic knowledge / Marc J. Ratcliff
- The sheep breeders' view of heredity before and after 1800 / Roger Wood
- pt. IV : Theories of Generation and Evolution
- Speculation and experiment in enlightenment life sciences / Mary Terrall
- Kant on heredity and adaptation / Peter McLaughlin
- The delayed linkage of heredity with the cell theory / François Duchesneau
- On the shoulders of generations : the new epistemology of heredity in the nineteenth century / Ohad S. Parnes
- pt. V : Anthropology
- Las Castas : inter-racial crossing and social structure, 1770-1835 / Renato G. Mazzolini
- Acquired character : the hereditary material of the "self-made man" / Paul White
- "Victor, l'enfant de la forêt" : experiments on heredity in savage children / Nicolas Pethes
- Sui generis : heredity and heritage of genius at the turn of the eighteenth century / Stefan Willer
- Epilogue : The heredity of poetics / Helmuth Müller-Sievers.