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The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine

Title
The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.
Author
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012], ©2012.

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Description
xvii, 316 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Medical genetics > United States > History
  • Eugenics > United States > History
  • Heredity > United States > History
  • Genetics, Medical > history
  • Eugenics > history
  • Heredity > genetics
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780300169911 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300169914 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012005081
OCLC
  • ocn775733838
  • 775733838
  • SCSB-8854366
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries