Description
Temporarily out of stock
Title: Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Author: PORTER THEODORE M
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/04/2018
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $74.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
“”We’ve all been taught how genetics got its start in Mendel’s pea patch. But the real story is more complicated, and a lot more interesting. In Genetics in the Madhouse, Theodore Porter chronicles some of the early history of heredity–not in gardens, but in asylums. The book is a fascinating exploration of the long-running conviction that madness, criminality, and other mental traits can be passed down from parent to child.””–Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity””Important and original. Drawing on a wealth of archival research in many languages across many different national settings, Porter reexamines the role of psychiatry in the study of human heredity. Genetics in the Madhouse is an enormously impressive book.””–Andrew Scull, author of Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
ISBN: 9780691164540
Pages: 440