Format:
1 online resource (496 pages)
ISBN:
9780262280334
Series Statement:
Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser
Content:
The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ch 1: Heredity-The Formation of an Epistemic Space -- I Heredity in the Legal Context -- Ch 2: From Clan to Kindred: Kinship and the Circulation of Property in Premodern and Modern Europe -- Ch 3: Resemblance, Paternity, and Imagination in Early Modern Courts -- Ch 4: Continuity and Death: Literature and the Law of Succession in the Nineteenth Century -- II Heredity and Medicine -- Ch 5: The Medical Origins of Heredity -- Ch 6: Erasmus Darwin and the "Noble" Disease (Gout): Conceptualizing Heredity and Disease in Enlightenment England -- Ch 7: Degeneration and "Alienism" in Early Nineteenth-Century France -- III Natural History, Breeding, and Hybridization -- Ch 8: Figures of Inheritance, 1650-1850 -- Ch 9: Duchesne's Strawberries: Between Growers' Practices and Academic Knowledge -- Ch 10: The Sheep Breeders' View of Heredity Before and After 1800 -- IV Theories of Generation and Evolution -- Ch 11: Speculation and Experiment in Enlightenment Life Sciences -- Ch 12: Kant on Heredity and Adaptation -- Ch 13: The Delayed Linkage of Heredity with the Cell Theory -- Ch 14: On the Shoulders of Generations: The New Epistemology of Heredity in the Nineteenth Century -- V Anthropology -- Ch 15: Las Castas: Interracial Crossing and Social Structure, 1770-1835 -- Ch 16: Acquired Character: The Hereditary Material of the "Self-Made Man" -- Ch 17: "Victor, l'enfant de la forêt": Experiments on Heredity in Savage Children -- Ch 18: Sui Generis: Heredity and Heritage of Genius at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century -- Epilogue -- Ch 19: The Heredity of Poetics -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262134767
Additional Edition:
Print version Muller-Wille, Steffan Heredity Produced : At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 Cambridge : MIT Press,c2007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heredity produced Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007 ISBN 0262134764
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262134767
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Vererbung
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1500-1870
;
Genetik
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1500-1870
;
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Author information:
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 1946-
Author information:
Müller-Wille, Staffan 1964-
