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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 pointed to heredity as the most important of these
464 pages, 20 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 14, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691203232 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 226 × 147 × 41 mm · 708 g |
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