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

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Heredity produced : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500 - 1870 / ed. by Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Dades bibliogràfiques
Altres autors:	Müller-Wille, Staffan (Editor), Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (Editor)
Format:	Llibre
Idioma:	German
Publicat:	Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 2007
Col·lecció:	Transformations
Matèries:	Vererbung Kultur Geschichte 1500-1870 Genetik Aufsatzsammlung
Continguts/components:	19 registres

1. Figures of inheritance : 1650 - 1850

2. 'Las Castas' : interracial crossing and social structure, 1770-1835

3. The sheep breeders' view of heredity before and after 1800

4. Duchesne's strawberries : between grower's practice and academic knowledge

5. Acquired character : the hereditary material of the 'Self-Made Man'

6. Kant on heredity and adaptation

7. Degeneration and 'Alienism' in early nineteenth century France

8. The delayed linkage of heredity with the cell theory

9. Sui generis : heredity and heritage of genius at the turn of the eighteenth century

10. On the shoulders of generations : the new epistemology of heredity in the nineteenth century

11. Continuity and death : literature and the law of succession in the nineteenth century

12. 'Victor, l'enfant de la fôret' : experiments on heredity in savage children

13. From clan to kindred : kinship and the circulation of property in premodern and modern Europe

14. Erasmus Darwin and the 'noble' disease (Gout) : conceptualizing heredity and disease in Enlightenment England

15. Resemblance, paternity, and imagination in early modern courts

16. Speculation and experiment in Enlightenment life sciences

17. Heredity : the formation of an epistemic space

18. The heredity of poetics

19. The medical origins of heredity