Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xvi

List of Figures and Tables
pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
pp 1-12

Part I - Constructing Surveys of Heredity

1 - Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882–1945
pp 13-26

2 - Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs
pp 27-38

3 - Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S. Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability
pp 39-54

Part II - Blood and Populations

4 - From ‘Races’ to ‘Isolates’ and ‘Endogamous Communities’: Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s
pp 55-68

5 - Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Group Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II
pp 69-84

6 - The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944–56
pp 85-100

7 - Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945–70
pp 101-112

Part III - Human Heredity in the Laboratory

8 - From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Durée
pp 113-126

9 - Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948–58
pp 127-140

10 - Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s–1970s
pp 141-152

Part IV - Understanding and Managing Disease

11 - The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World
pp 153-164

12 - ‘The Most Hereditary of All Diseases’: Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930–70
pp 165-178

13 - How PKU Became a Genetic Disease
pp 179-192

Part V - Reconstructing Discipline(s)

14 - The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c. 1968–80
pp 193-204

15 - Performing Anger: H. J. Muller, James V. Neel and Radiation Risk
pp 205-216

16 - The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948–53
pp 217-228

Notes
pp 229-290

Index
pp 291-302

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