A short history of medical genetics / Peter S. Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Peter S.

Series:

Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; no. 57.

Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical genetics--History.

Medical genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (570 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing, and sometimes retarding, the field - from the origins of human genetics through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants, from the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities and up through the completion of the Human Genome project.

Contents:

Before Mendel

Mendelism and human inherited disease

The rise of classical genetics

The beginnings of molecular biology

Human chromosomes

Human biochemical genetics

The human gene map

Genes, populations, and human inherited disease

Human genetics as a scientific discipline

From human to medical genetics

The elements of medical genetics

Medical genetics : the laboratory basis

Human molecular genetics

The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease

Eugenics

The tragedy of Russian genetics

Medical genetics : the ethical dimension

History in the making.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-538) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-020839-2

0-19-935308-5

1-282-54411-X

9786612544118

0-19-972013-4

OCLC:

647897416