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History of Human Genetics

Aspects of Its Development and Global Perspectives

  • Heike I. Petermann
  • Peter S. Harper
  • Susanne Doetz
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction
    Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper, Susanne Doetz
    Pages 1-4

  3. Workshops on the History of Human Genetics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 5-5
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    2. The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History: An Overview, 2003–2015
      Peter S. Harper, Heike I. Petermann
      Pages 7-38

  4. Beginning of Human Genetics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 39-39
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    2. Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine in Epicurean Philosophy
      Christos Yapijakis
      Pages 41-57
    3. Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics to the British Medical Community 1900–1910
      Alan R. Rushton
      Pages 59-71

  5. Genetics and Medicine

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
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    2. Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification at the US Eugenics Record Office
      Philip K. Wilson
      Pages 75-89
    3. Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer and Heredity (1895–1940)
      Toine Pieters
      Pages 91-103
    4. Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism
      Stephen Snelders, Charles D. Kaplan, Frans J. Meijman, Toine Pieters
      Pages 105-114
    5. The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing Radical Reductionism
      Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutierrez, Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Caso
      Pages 115-131
    6. A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics
      Reed E. Pyeritz
      Pages 133-142

  6. Countries

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 143-143
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    2. “Nature’s Laboratories of Human Genetics”: Alpine Isolates, Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 1920–1970
      Pascal Germann
      Pages 145-166
    3. Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization
      Nils Roll-Hansen
      Pages 167-187
    4. Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as an Applied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1975
      Heike I. Petermann
      Pages 189-219
    5. Herbert Bach (1926–1996): One of the Pioneers of Human Genetics in East Germany (GDR)
      Jörg Pittelkow
      Pages 221-232
    6. Concise History of Prenatal Diagnostic Service in Russia
      Vladislav S. Baranov
      Pages 233-252
    7. Foundation of the International Federation of Human Genetics Societies: The Catalyst
      Karen Birmingham
      Pages 253-261

  7. Gene Mapping

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 263-263
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    2. The First Human Genetic Map 1936
      Alan R. Rushton
      Pages 265-274
    3. Glasgow Contributions to Human Gene Mapping
      Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
      Pages 275-284
    4. Human Gene Mapping: The Mass Media Iconography of the Human Genome Project in the Most Popular Greek Newspapers
      Constantinos Morfakis
      Pages 285-315

  8. Narrated History

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 317-317
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    2. National Human Genome Research Institute History of Genomics Oral History Program: An Example of “Triangulation”
      Christopher Donohue
      Pages 319-324
    3. Narrating Genes: How Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Interpret an Emerging Disease Aetiology and How We Can Make Sense Out of It by Developing a Historically and Sociologically Informed Framework
      Dana Mahr
      Pages 325-336

  9. Genetic Counselling

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 337-337
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    2. The Establishment of Genetic Counselling in Sweden: 1940–1980
      Maria Björkman, Anna Tunlid
      Pages 339-366
    3. Counselling, Risk and Prevention in Human Genetic Early Diagnosis in the Federal Republic of Germany
      Birgit Nemec, Gabriele Moser
      Pages 367-392
    4. “The Happiness of the Individual Is of Primary Importance”: Genetic Counselling in the GDR
      Susanne Doetz
      Pages 393-419
    5. Remarks on the History of Genetic Counselling in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1990
      Michal V. Simunek
      Pages 421-431
    6. The Establishment of Human Genetic Counselling in Austria in the 1970s in Between the Establishment of Human Genetics and the Eugenic Indication of Abortion
      Katja Geiger, Thomas Mayer
      Pages 433-445
    7. Genetic Counselling in Belgium: The Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Leuven, 1960–1990
      Joris Vandendriessche
      Pages 447-459
    8. Genetic Counselling for Mediterranean Anaemia in Post-war Greece
      Alexandra Barmpouti
      Pages 461-483
    9. Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s
      Ana Barahona
      Pages 485-501
    10. Newborn Screening on the Cusp of Genetic Screening: From Solidarity in Public Health to Personal Counselling
      Margherita Brusa, Michael Y. Barilan
      Pages 503-522
    11. Feminist Criticism of Genetic Counselling in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
      Shachar Zuckerman
      Pages 523-540
    12. The Evolving Concept of Non-directiveness in Genetic Counselling
      Angus Clarke
      Pages 541-566
    13. A Comparative and Social History of Genetic Counselling?
      Jean-Paul Gaudilliere
      Pages 567-576

About this book

Introduction

Written by 30 authors from all over the world, this book provides a unique overview of exciting discoveries and surprising developments in human genetics over the last 50 years.

The individual contributions, based on seven international workshops on the history of human genetics, cover a diverse range of topics, including the early years of the discipline, gene mapping and diagnostics. Further, they discuss the status quo of human genetics in different countries and highlight the value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics.

Keywords

Human Genetics history technologies methods clinical genetics

Editors and affiliations

  • Heike I. Petermann
    • 1
  • Peter S. Harper
    • 2
  • Susanne Doetz
    • 3
  1. 1.Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der MedizinWestfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätMünsterGermany
  2. 2.Institute of Medical GeneticsCardiff UniversityCardiffUnited Kingdom
  3. 3.Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der MedizinCharité-UniversitätsmedizinBerlinGermany

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