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Heredity produced at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870

Staffan Müller-Wille 1964-; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2007

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  • Title:
    Heredity produced at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870
  • Author: Staffan Müller-Wille 1964-; Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
  • Subjects: Heredity -- History; Genetics -- history; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; History, Modern 1601-; Heredity -- History; Genetik; Kultur; Vererbung; HEREDITARIEDADE (HISTÓRIA); GENÉTICA (HISTÓRIA); Geschichte 1500-1870
  • Notes: Referências e índice
  • Description: Heredity : the formation of an epistemic space / From clan to kindred : kinship and the circulation of property in premodern and modern Europe / Resemblance, paternity and imagination in early modern courts / Continuity and death : literature and the law of succession in the nineteenth century / The medical origins of heredity / Erasmus Darwin and the "noble" disease (gout) : conceptualizing heredity and disease in enlightenment England / Degeneration and "alienism" in early nineteenth century France / Figures of inheritance, 1650-1850 / Duchesne's strawberries : between grower's practices and academic knowledge / The sheep breeders' view of heredity before and after 1800 / Speculation and experiment in enlightenment life sciences / Kant on heredity and adaptation / The delayed linkage of heredity with the cell theory / On the shoulders of generations : the new epistemology of heredity in the nineteenth century / Las Castas : inter-racial crossing and social structure, 1770-1835 / Acquired character : the hereditary material of the "self-made man" / "Victor, l'enfant de la forêt" : experiments on heredity in savage children / Sui generis : heredity and heritage of genius at the turn of the eighteenth century / The heredity of poetics /
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press
  • Creation Date: c2007
  • Format: x, 496 p., 2 p. of plates ill. (some col.) 24 cm.
  • Language: English
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