Author: Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Biennial Reports of the Directors and Medical Visitors and ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum
Author: Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Biennial Reports of the Directors and Medial Visitors and ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum of California
Author: Insane Asylum (California)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Biennial Reports of the Directors and Medical Visitors and ... Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum of the State of California
Author: Asylum for the Insane of the State of CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Genetics in the Madhouse
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400890500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredity In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for "feebleminded" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one.
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
Author: CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The Journal of the Assembly, during the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Journal
Author: California. LegislaturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Medico-legal Society of New York
Author: Clark BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Medico-legal Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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