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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.

Medical genetics --- Clinical genetics --- Diseases --- Heredity of disease --- Human genetics --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Genetic disorders --- History. --- Genetic aspects --- Genetics, Medical --- History, Modern 1601-. --- history.

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When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington's chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington's in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington's as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to "belong to the disease"; the emergence of Huntington's chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.

Huntington's chorea --- Chronic progressive chorea --- Chronic progressive hereditary chorea --- Degenerative chorea --- HC (Disease) --- HD (Disease) --- Hereditary chorea --- Huntington chorea --- Huntington chronic progressive hereditary chorea --- Huntington disease --- Lund-Huntington chorea --- Microcellular striatal syndrome --- Progressive hereditary chorea, Chronic --- Chorea --- Dementia --- Genetic disorders --- Nervous system --- History --- Degeneration --- Hedges, Phebe, --- Huntington, George, --- Muncey, E. B. --- Muncey, Elizabeth B. --- Tillinghast, Phebe,

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A fully revised edition of a volume written by the world's leading authorities on this subject. It discusses how the evolution of humans and their pathogens have generated important medical issues, covering both infectious and degenerative diseases. It presents important ideas that are not yet sufficiently appreciated in the medical community.

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