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Heredity

A Very Short Introduction

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John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centuries to identify the physiological mechanisms involved and how views of heredity have been used to justify or condemn inequalities of class, gender, and race.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • Preface

  • 1: Heredity in antiquity

  • 2: Ideas of heredity in Medieval Europe, 500AD-1450AD

  • 3: Heredity in the early modern world, 1450-1700

  • 4: Heredity in the Enlightenment

  • 5: Heredity in the nineteenth century

  • 6: The discovery of the gene

  • 7: The rise and rise of medical genetics

  • 8: Uncertain progress: race, class and gender, 1900-2016

  • References

  • Further Reading

  • Index


Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
24. Oktober 2017
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
176
Reihe
Very Short Introductions
Autor/Autorin
John Waller
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
132 g
Größe (L/B/H)
172/108/15 mm
ISBN
9780198790457

Portrait

John Waller

John Waller has taught at University College London and the University of Melbourne, and is currently an associate professor of the history of science and medicine at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books on scientific discovery and social history, including Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002), The Discovery of the Germ (Columbia, 2003), Leaps in the Dark (OUP, 2004), and A Time to Dance, A Time To Die (Icon, 2009). He is currently completing a study of the history of dehumanization.

Pressestimmen

A terrific study that interlaces the science with stimulating discussions about the ways in which hereditarian ideas once played out in eugenics, slavery, IQ and gender relations, including the ethical dilemmas of modern medical research. Janet Browne, author of Charles Darwin : A Biography

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