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Genetics in the madhouse : the unknown history of human heredity /
In 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 pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost fai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2018.
Princeton, New Jersey : [2018] |
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- Introduction: Data-heredity-madness: a medical-social dream. Part I: Recording heredity. Bold claims to cure a raving king let loose a cry for data, 1789-1816
- Narratives of mad despair accumulate as information, 1818-1845
- New tools of tabulation point to heredity as the real cause, 1840-1855
- The census of insanity tests its status as a disease of civilization, 1807-1851
- Part II: Tabular reason. French alienists call heredity too deep for statistics while German ones build a database, 1844-1866
- Dahl surveys family madness in Norway, and Darwin scrutinizes his own family through the lens of Asylum data, 1859-1875
- A standardizing project out of France yields to German systems of census cards, 1855-1874
- German doctors organize data to turn the tables on degeneration, 1857-1879
- Alienists work to systematize haphazard causal data, 1854-1907
- Part III: A data science of human heredity. The human science of heredity takes on a British crisis of feeblemindedness, 1884-1910
- Genetic ratios and medical numbers give rise to big data ambitions in America, 1902-1920
- German doctors link genetics to rigorous disease categories then settle for statistics, 1895-1920
- Psychiatric geneticists create colossal databases, some with horrifying purposes, 1920-1939
- Aftermath: Data science, human genetics, and history.