Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: The History of Human Heredity - Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Muller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden Part I: Constructing Surveys of Heredity 1 Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about the Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882-1945 - Bernd Gausemeier 2 Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs - Philip K Wilson 3 Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability - Edmund Ramsden Part II: Blood and Populations 4 From 'Races' to 'Isolates' and 'Endogamous Communities': Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s - Veronika Lipphardt 5 Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Groups Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II - Jenny Bangham 6 The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944-1956 - Pascal Germann 7 Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945-70 - Edna Suarez-Diaz and Ana Barahona Part III: Human Heredity in the Laboratory 8 From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Duree - Alexander von Schwerin 9 Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estacion Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948-1958 - Maria Jesus Santesmases 10 Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s-1970s - Soraya de Chadarevian Part IV: Understanding and Managing Disease 11 The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World - Judith E Friedman 12 'The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930-1970 - Stephen Pemberton 13 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease - Diane B Paul Part V: Reconstructing Discipline(s) 14 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c.1968-80 - Anne Cottebrune 15 Performing Anger: H J Muller, James V Neel and Radiation Risk - Susan Lindee 16 The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948-53 - Francesco Cassata Notes Index