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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454698903321

Titolo

Heredity produced [[electronic resource] ] : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 / / edited by Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

0-262-29352-8

1-282-09866-7

9786612098666

0-262-28033-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

Müller-WilleStaffan <1964->

RheinbergerHans-Jörg

Disciplina

576.5

Soggetti

Heredity - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 FranceIII 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 CenturyV 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