The science of human perfection : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.

  • Comfort, Nathaniel C.
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[2012], ©2012
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012], ©2012.

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xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AOT.6.AA9-10
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  • 9780300169911
  • 0300169914