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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

by Theodore M. Porter

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 admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

447

ISBN

9780691164540