Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

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Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century

Author	: Bernd Gausemeier
File Size	: 41,5 Mb
Publisher	: Routledge
Language	: English
Release Date	: 06 October 2015
ISBN	: 9781317319207
Pages	: 363 pages

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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.

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