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
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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