Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

ISBN-13: 9780691164540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 464 str.

Theodore M. Porter

Recenzje

"A very significant contribution to the history of the human sciences, statistics, and eugenics. Porter rewards readers not only with astonishing insights into nineteenth-century data collection on the mentally ill and feebleminded, but also with the pleasure of reading a good, intriguing story."--Staffan Müller-Wille, coauthor of A Cultural History of Heredity

O autorze

Theodore M. Porter is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Peter Reill Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life, and The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (all Princeton). He lives in Altadena, California.