Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Series

The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.

Acknowledgements, List of Contributors, List of Figures and Tables, Introduction: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century – Bernd Gausemeier, Staff an Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden, Part I: Constructing Surveys of Heredity, Part II: Blood and Populations, Part III: Human Heredity in the Laboratory, Part IV: Understanding and Managing Disease, Part V: Reconstructing Discipline(s), Notes, Index

Bernd Gausemeier