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The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.
Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.Description: xvii, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300169911 :
- 0300169914 :
- Medical genetics -- United States -- History
- Eugenics -- United States -- History
- Heredity -- United States -- History
- Genetics, Medical -- history -- United States
- Eugenics -- history -- United States
- Heredity -- genetics -- United States
- History, 20th Century -- United States
- History, 21st Century -- United States
- RB155 .C66 2012
Contents:
The Galton-Garrod Society -- Fisher's quest -- A germ theory of genes -- The heredity clinics -- How the geneticists learned to start worrying and love mutation -- Getting their organ -- Genetics without sex.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Galton-Garrod Society -- Fisher's quest -- A germ theory of genes -- The heredity clinics -- How the geneticists learned to start worrying and love mutation -- Getting their organ -- Genetics without sex.
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