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History of Human Genetics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 2003–2015
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    Chapter 3 Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy
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    Chapter 4 Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics to the British Medical Community 1900–1910
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    Chapter 5 Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification at the US Eugenics Record Office
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    Chapter 6 Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)
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    Chapter 7 Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism
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    Chapter 8 The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing Radical Reductionism
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    Chapter 9 A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics
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    Chapter 10 “Nature’s Laboratories of Human Genetics”: Alpine Isolates, Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 1920–1970
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    Chapter 11 Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization
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    Chapter 12 Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as an Applied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1975
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    Chapter 13 Herbert Bach (1926–1996): One of the Pioneers of Human Genetics in East Germany (GDR)
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    Chapter 14 Concise History of Prenatal Diagnostic Service in Russia
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    Chapter 15 Foundation of the International Federation of Human Genetics Societies: The Catalyst
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    Chapter 16 The First Human Genetic Map 1936
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    Chapter 17 Glasgow Contributions to Human Gene Mapping
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    Chapter 18 Human Gene Mapping: The Mass Media Iconography of the Human Genome Project in the Most Popular Greek Newspapers
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    Chapter 19 National Human Genome Research Institute History of Genomics Oral History Program: An Example of “Triangulation”
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    Chapter 20 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
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    Chapter 21 The Establishment of Genetic Counselling in Sweden: 1940–1980
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    Chapter 22 Counselling, Risk and Prevention in Human Genetic Early Diagnosis in the Federal Republic of Germany
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    Chapter 23 “The Happiness of the Individual Is of Primary Importance”: Genetic Counselling in the GDR
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    Chapter 24 Remarks on the History of Genetic Counselling in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1990
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    Chapter 25 The Establishment of Human Genetic Counselling in Austria in the 1970s in Between the Establishment of Human Genetics and the Eugenic Indication of Abortion
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    Chapter 26 Genetic Counselling in Belgium: The Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Leuven, 1960–1990
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    Chapter 27 Genetic Counselling for Mediterranean Anaemia in Post-war Greece
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    Chapter 28 Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s
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    Chapter 29 Newborn Screening on the Cusp of Genetic Screening: From Solidarity in Public Health to Personal Counselling
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    Chapter 30 Feminist Criticism of Genetic Counselling in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
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    Chapter 31 The Evolving Concept of Non-directiveness in Genetic Counselling
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    Chapter 32 A Comparative and Social History of Genetic Counselling?
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Title
History of Human Genetics
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4
ISBNs
978-3-31-951783-4, 978-3-31-951782-7
Editors

Heike Petermann, Peter Harper, Susanne Doetz

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Country Count As %
Sweden 1 5%
Unknown 21 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Researcher 2 9%
Student > Master 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 12 55%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 9%
Environmental Science 1 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 13 59%