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John Waller

Breeding

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Brand: Oxford University Press
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The Human History of Heredity, Race, and Sex

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John Waller presents a history of one of the most important concepts in western thought: heredity. Tracing the development of our understanding of inheritance from the ancient Greeks to the advance of modern genetics, he presents the story of a remarkable set of scientific achievements.

Presents a historical backdrop to current debates about heredity, sex and race.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Mary Toft's Rabbits and Noah's Sons: early modern ideas of heredity

1: Bred in the bone

2: The ideology of blood

3: Thinking about race: Moors, slaves and native Americans

Part 2: Progress and Predispositions

4: Polydactyly, preformation and racial science

5: The invention of progress

6: The patrician's malady and other afflictions

7: Bakewell's sheep: the vogue for animal breeding

Part 3: Good and bad blood in the Nineteenth Century

8: Progress and decay

9: Breeding in and out

10: Monads, men and mockingbirds

11: Degeneration and dire predictions

12: 'Galaxies of geniuses'

Part 4: Eugenics, Genetics and UNESCO Man

13: The gospel spreads

14: From heredity to genetics

15: Edging towards disaster

16: 'Lives not worth living'

17: The Double Helix and beyond

18: The demise of post-war consensus

Conclusion: a distant mirror?

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Juli 2025

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

368

Autor/Autorin

John Waller

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

gebunden

Gewicht

5 g

Größe (L/B/H)

3/3/3 mm

ISBN

9780199239214

Portrait

John Waller

John Waller was educated at the universities of Oxford and London, and is now associate professor of the history of medicine at Michigan State University. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the history of science, medicine, and child warfare, including Fabulous Science (OUP, 2002), The Discovery of the Germ (Columbia University Press, 2005), and The Real Oliver Twist (Icon Books, 2006).

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