History of Human Genetics: Aspects of Its Development and Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783319517827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 576 str.

Heike Petermann; Peter Harper; Susanne Doetz

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Introduction 

Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper, and Susanne Doetz

Part I Workshops on the History of Human Genetics

The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History:

An Overview, 2003–2015

Peter S. Harper and Heike I. Petermann

Part II Beginning of Human Genetics

Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine

in Epicurean Philosophy 

Christos Yapijakis

Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Genetics

to the British Medical Community 1900–1910

Alan R. Rushton

Part III Genetics and Medicine

Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classification

at the US Eugenics Record Office

Philip K. Wilson

Aldred Scott Warthin’s Family ‘G’: The American Plot Against Cancer

and Heredity (1895–1940)

Toine Pieters

Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism 

Stephen Snelders, Charles D. Kaplan, Frans J. Meijman, and Toine Pieters

The Genomization of Biology: Counterbalancing

Radical Reductionism

Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutierrez,

and Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Caso

A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics 

Reed E. Pyeritz

Part IV Countries

“Nature’s Laboratories of Human Genetics”: Alpine Isolates,

Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 1920–1970

Pascal Germann

Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical

Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization

Nils Roll-Hansen

Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as an

Applied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1975

Heike I. Petermann

Herbert Bach (1926–1996): One of the Pioneers of Human Genetics

in East Germany (GDR) 

J€org Pittelkow

Concise History of Prenatal Diagnostic Service in Russia

Vladislav S. Baranov

Foundation of the International Federation of Human Genetic Societies:

The Catalyst 

Karen Birmingham

Part V Gene Mapping

The First Human Genetic Map 1936

Alan R. Rushton

Glasgow Contributions to Human Gene Mapping

Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith

Human Gene Mapping: The Mass Media Iconography of the Human

Genome Project in the Most Popular Greek Newspapers

Constantinos Morfakis

Part VI Narrated History

National Human Genome Research Institute History of Genomics

Oral History Program: An Example of “Triangulation”

Christopher Donohue

Narrating Genes: How Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel

Diseases Interpret an Emerging Disease Aetiology and How We Can

Make Sense Out of It by Developing a Historically and Sociologically

Informed Framework

Dana Mahr

Part VII Genetic Counselling

The Establishment of Genetic Counselling in Sweden: 1940–1980

Maria Bj€orkman and Anna Tunlid

Counselling, Risk and Prevention in Human Genetic Early Diagnosis

in the Federal Republic of Germany

Birgit Nemec and Gabriele Moser

“The Happiness of the Individual Is of Primary Importance”:

Genetic Counselling in the GDR

Susanne Doetz

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Remarks on the History of Genetic Counselling in Czechoslovakia,

1945–1990

Michal V. Simunek

The Establishment of Human Genetic Counselling in Austria in the

1970s in Between the Establishment of Human Genetics and the

Eugenic Indication of Abortion

Katja Geiger and Thomas Mayer

Genetic Counselling in Belgium: The Centre for Human Genetics<

at the University of Leuven, 1960–1990

Joris Vandendriessche

Genetic Counselling for Mediterranean Anaemia in Post-war Greece

Alexandra Barmpouti

Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico

in the 1960s

Ana Barahona

Newborn Screening on the Cusp of Genetic Screening: From Solidarity

in Public Health to Personal Counselling

Margherita Brusa and Michael Y. Barilan

Feminist Criticism of Genetic Counselling in the Second Half

of the Twentieth Century

Shachar Zuckerman

The Evolving Concept of Non-directiveness in Genetic Counselling

Angus Clarke

A Comparative and Social History of Genetic Counselling?

Jean-Paul Gaudilliere

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Heike I. Petermann studied history and German literature at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. Her two main fields of interests are the history of anaesthesiology and the history human genetics. Since 2000 she has been secretary of the DGAI’s Arbeitskreis für Geschichte der Anästhesie. She was also member of editorial office of 55 years German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Tradition and Innovation. In 2011 she started her own research project on the history of human genetics, funded by the DFG.  She has also been involved in organising international conferences.

Peter S. Harper was born in Barnstaple, UK, and was educated at Oxford University, with medical training in London. After clinical posts in neurology and paediatrics he entered the field of medical genetics and worked first in Liverpool with Cyril Clarke and then as research fellow with Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. After completing his doctoral thesis, in 1971 he founded and developed a medical genetics institute at the School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales, where he continued his research on myotonic dystrophy, together with research on Huntington's disease and other neurogenetic disorders.His work has made a major contribution to our understanding of these and other disorders; he also developed a comprehensive medical genetics service for Wales. His many publications include Practical Genetic Counselling, which is now in its 7th edition and has been translated into numerous languages.In the past 15 years he has focused on documenting and preserving the history of human and medical genetics, founding the “Genetics and Medicine Historical Network” and publishing a number of books with a historical theme, including A Short History of Medical Genetics(2008).

Susanne Doetz studied medicine at the Humboldt Universität/Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She is a visiting scientist at the Institute of History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Charité in Berlin. Her research interests include the history of medicine during the time of National Socialism, and the history of eugenics and human genetics. Her current research project is titled “Establishing genetic counselling in the GDR in the area of conflict between science, politics and the public”, and is supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation).

 

 

Blurb

Written by 30 authors from all over the world, this book provides a unique overview of exciting discoveries and surprising developments in human genetics over the last 50 years.

The individual contributions, based on seven international workshops on the history of human genetics, cover a diverse range of topics, including the early years of the discipline, gene mapping and diagnostics. Further, they discuss the status quo of human genetics in different countries and highlight the value of genetic counseling as an important subfield of medical genetics.