02870nam 22006254a 450 991080782110332120240402135218.00-19-020839-20-19-935308-51-282-54411-X97866125441180-19-972013-4(CKB)1000000000705335(OCoLC)647897416(CaPaEBR)ebrary10375014(SSID)ssj0000245591(PQKBManifestationID)11192166(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245591(PQKBWorkID)10180525(PQKB)11187087(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157649(Au-PeEL)EBL1678695(CaPaEBR)ebr10375014(CaONFJC)MIL254411(OCoLC)923708317(MiAaPQ)EBC1678695(EXLCZ)99100000000070533520080117d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA short history of medical genetics /Peter S. Harper1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (570 p.)Oxford monographs on medical genetics ;57Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-518750-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-538) and index.Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.Rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing, and sometimes retarding, the field - from the origins of human genetics through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants, from the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities and up through the completion of the Human Genome project.Oxford monographs on medical genetics ;no. 57.Medical geneticsHistoryMedical geneticsHistory.616/.042Harper Peter S63358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807821103321A short history of medical genetics4050101UNINA