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| Autore principale: | Porter, Theodore M., 1953-
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| Titolo: | Genetics in the madhouse : the unknown history of human heredity / Theodore M. Porter. |
| Pubblicazione: | Princeton : Princeton university press, c2018. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XII, 447 p. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Some words of interest. Pt. 1. Recording heredity: 1. Bold claims to cure a raving king let loose a cry for data (1789-1816) 2. Narratives of mad despair accumulate as information (1818-1845) 3. New tools of tabulation point to heredity as the real cause (1840-1855) 4. The census of insanity tests its status as a disease of civilization (1807-1851). Pt. 2. Tabular reason: 5. French alienists call heredity too deep for statistics while German ones build a database (1844-1866) 6. Dahl surveys family madness in Norway and Darwin scrutinizes his own family through the lens of asylum data (1859-1875) 7. A standardizing project out of France yields to German systems of census cards (1855-1874) 8. German doctors organize data to turn the tables on degeneration (1857-1879) 9. Alienists work tosystematize haphazard causal data (1854-1907). Pt. 3. A data science of human heredity: 10. The human science of heredity takes on a British crisis of feeblemindedness (1884-1910) 11. Genetic ratios and medical numbers give rise to big data ambitions in America (1902-1920) 12. German doctors link gnetics to rigorous disease categories then settle for statistics (1895-1920) 13. Psychiatrics geneticists create colossal databases, some with horrifying purpose (1920-1939). Aftermath: Data science human gnetics and history. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780691203232 |
| Discipline: | Malattie del sistema nervoso--Studi. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 21421 |
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