A short history of medical genetics [[electronic resource] /] / Peter S. Harper

• Autore: Harper Peter S
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (570 p.)
• Disciplina: 616/.042
• Soggetto topico: Medical genetics - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-538) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A short history of medical genetics
• ISBN: 0-19-935308-5; 1-282-54411-X; 9786612544118; 0-19-972013-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454740603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; ; no. 57.