History of Human Genetics Aspects of Its Development and Global Perspectives /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Petermann, Heike I. (Editor ), Harper, Peter S. (Editor ), Doetz, Susanne. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Workshops on the History of Human Genetics
  • The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 2003–2015
  • Part II: Beginning of Human Genetics
  • Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy
  • Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics to the British Medical Community 1900–1910
  • Part III: Genetics and Medicine
  • Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification at the US Eugenics Record Office
  • Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)
  • Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism
  • The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing Radical Reductionism
  • A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics
  • Part IV: Countries
  • “Nature’s Laboratories of Human Genetics”: Alpine Isolates, Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 1920–1970
  • Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization
  • Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as an Applied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1975
  • Herbert Bach (1926–1996): One of the Pioneers of Human Genetics in East Germany (GDR)
  • Concise History of Prenatal Diagnostic Service in Russia
  • Foundation of the International Federation of Human Genetic Societies: The Catalyst
  • Part V: Gene Mapping
  • The First Human Genetic Map 1936
  • Glasgow Contributions to Human Gene Mapping
  • Human Gene Mapping: The Mass Media Iconography of the Human Genome Project in the Most Popular Greek Newspapers
  • Part VI: Narrated History
  • National Human Genome Research Institute History of Genomics Oral History Program: An Example of “Triangulation”
  • Narrating Genes: How Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Interpret an Emerging Disease Aetiology and How We Can Make Sense Out of It by Developing a Historically and Sociologically Informed Framework
  • Part VII: Genetic Counselling
  • The Establishment of Genetic Counselling in Sweden: 1940–1980
  • Counselling, Risk and Prevention in Human Genetic Early Diagnosis in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • “The Happiness of the Individual Is of Primary Importance”:Genetic Counselling in the GDR
  • Remarks on the History of Genetic Counselling in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1990
  • The Establishment of Human Genetic Counselling in Austria in the 1970s in Between the Establishment of Human Genetics and the Eugenic Indication of Abortion
  • Genetic Counselling in Belgium: The Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Leuven, 1960–1990
  • Genetic Counselling for Mediterranean Anaemia in Post-war Greece
  • Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s
  • Newborn Screening on the Cusp of Genetic Screening: From Solidarity in Public Health to Personal Counselling
  • Feminist Criticism of Genetic Counselling in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
  • The Evolving Concept of Non-directiveness in Genetic Counselling
  • A Comparative and Social History of Genetic Counselling?.