Genetics in the Madhouse : : The Unknown History of Human Heredity /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Porter, Theodore M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 20 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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