Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xvi

List of Figures and Tables

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

pp 1-12

Part I - Constructing Surveys of Heredity

1 - Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882–1945

pp 13-26

2 - Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs

pp 27-38

3 - Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S. Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability

pp 39-54

Part II - Blood and Populations

4 - From ‘Races’ to ‘Isolates’ and ‘Endogamous Communities’: Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s

pp 55-68

5 - Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Group Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II

pp 69-84

6 - The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944–56

pp 85-100

7 - Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945–70

pp 101-112

Part III - Human Heredity in the Laboratory

8 - From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Durée

pp 113-126

9 - Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948–58

pp 127-140

10 - Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s–1970s

pp 141-152

Part IV - Understanding and Managing Disease

11 - The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World

pp 153-164

12 - ‘The Most Hereditary of All Diseases’: Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930–70

pp 165-178

13 - How PKU Became a Genetic Disease

pp 179-192

Part V - Reconstructing Discipline(s)

14 - The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c. 1968–80

pp 193-204

15 - Performing Anger: H. J. Muller, James V. Neel and Radiation Risk

pp 205-216

16 - The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948–53

pp 217-228

Notes

pp 229-290

Index

pp 291-302