Heredity produced [[electronic resource] ] : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 / / edited by Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
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Heredity produced [[electronic resource] ] : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 / / edited by Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 576.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Heredity - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
Müller-WilleStaffan <1964->
RheinbergerHans-Jörg
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| 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Heredity produced |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29352-8 |
| 1-282-09866-7 | |
| 9786612098666 | |
| 0-262-28033-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454698903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Transformations.