The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.
By: Comfort, Nathaniel C.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012Description: xvii, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780300198195 (pbk.).Subject(s): 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 StatesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 616/.042
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.