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The woman who walked into the sea : Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease / Alice Wexler.
LIBRA RC394.H85 W52 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wexler, Alice, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hedges, Phebe, 1764-1806.
- Hedges, Phebe.
- Huntington, George, 1850-1916.
- Huntington, George.
- Muncey, E. B.
- Huntington's disease--New York (State)--History--19th century.
- Huntington's disease.
- Huntington's disease--New York (State)--History--20th century.
- Eugenics--history.
- History.
- New York.
- Huntington Disease--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- New York (State).
- Medical Subjects:
- Eugenics--history.
- New York.
- Huntington Disease--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 253 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The death of Phebe Hedges
- The social course of St. Vitus's dance
- Inventing hereditary chorea
- Chorea and the clinical gaze
- The eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D.
- Myths of origins and endings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300105025
- 0300105029
- OCLC:
- 192042294
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