Genetics in the Madhouse : : The Unknown History of Human Heredity / / Theodore M. Porter.
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...
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Porter, Theodore M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Genetics in the Madhouse : The Unknown History of Human Heredity / Theodore M. Porter. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (464 p.) : 20 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for "feebleminded" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity.In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science.A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Eugenics. Mental illness Genetic aspects. HISTORY / Modern / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691164540 https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400890507?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400890507 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400890507/original |
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Porter, Theodore M., Porter, Theodore M., Genetics in the Madhouse : The Unknown History of Human Heredity / 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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