Human heredity in the twentieth century

Introduction: The History of Human Heredity / Bernd Gausemeier, Staffan Müller-Wille and Edmund Ramsden

Part I: Constructing Surveys of Heredity. 1 Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about the Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882-1945 / Bernd Gausemeier

2 Championing a US Clinic for Human Heredity: Pre-War Concepts and Post-War Constructs / Philip K Wilson

3 Remodelling the Boundaries of Normality: Lionel S Penrose and Population Surveys of Mental Ability / Edmund Ramsden

Part II: Blood and Populations. 4 From 'Races' to 'Isolates' and 'Endogamous Communities': Human Genetics and the Notion of Human Diversity in the 1950s / Veronika Lipphardt

5 Between the Transfusion Services and Blood Groups Research: Human Genetics in Britain during World War II / Jenny Bangham

6 The Abandonment of Race: Researching Human Diversity in Switzerland, 1944-1956 / Pascal Germann

7 Post-War and Post-Revolution: Medical Genetics and Social Anthropology in Mexico, 1945-70 / Edna Suárez-Diaz and Ana Barahona

Part III: Human Heredity in the Laboratory.

8 From Agriculture to Genomics: The Animal Side of of Human Genetics and the Organization of Model Organisms in the Longue Durée / Alexander von Schwerin

9 Cereals, Chromosomes and Colchicine: Crop Varieties at the Estación Experimental Aula Dei and Human Cytogenetics, 1948-1958 / María Jesús Santesmases

10 Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human Chromosome Research, 1950s-1970s / Soraya de Chadarevian

Part IV: Understanding and Managing Disease. 11 The Disappearance of the Concept of Anticipation in the Post-War World / Judith E Friedman

12 'The Most Hereditary of All Diseases': Haemophilia and the Utility of Genetics for Haematology, 1930-1970 / Stephen Pemberton

13 How PKU Became a Genetic Disease / Diane B Paul

Part V: Reconstructing Discipline(s). 14 The Emergence of Genetic Counselling in the Federal Republic of Germany: Continuity and Change in the Narratives of Human Geneticists, c.1968-80 / Anne Cottebrune

15 Performing Anger: H J Muller, James V Neel and Radiation Risk / Susan Lindee

16 The Struggle for Authority over Italian Genetics: The Ninth International Congress of Genetics in Bellagio, 1948-53 / Francesco Cassata.