Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity by Theodore M. Porter

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Theodore M. Porter

464 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science 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 ...

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