{"product_id":"genetics-in-the-madhouse-9780691164540","title":"Genetics in the Madhouse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Pfizer Award, History of Science Society\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral \u0026amp; Social Sciences\"\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Science News' Favorite Science Books of 2018\"\u003cbr\u003e\"I suspect this bold, dauntingly well-documented book will prove difficult to dismiss.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Dobbs, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By following the technologies of paperwork and data collection, Porter has unearthed a radically new history of human genetics, one that evokes not the double helix but the humble filing cabinet.\"\u003cb\u003e---Emily M. Kern, \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating but scary. \u003ci\u003eGenetics in the Madhouse\u003c\/i\u003e . . . uses date collection in psychiatric hospitals to show the stages when research straddles subjectivity and science.\"\u003cb\u003e---Liz Else and Simon Ings, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter takes a fascinating look at early attempts to tame unruly minds with big data and statistics.\"\u003cb\u003e---Bruce Bower, \u003ci\u003eScience News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched and deftly argued.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gregory Radick, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] absorbing account of the role played by mental illness studies in gaining an early understanding of human heredity.\"\u003cb\u003e---Robin McKie, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenetics in the Madhouse\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating examination of investigations of human heredity, conducted long before DNA could be studied in laboratories.\"\u003cb\u003e---Glenn Altschuler, \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGenetics in the Madhouse \u003c\/i\u003ehas the power to inspire, to captivate and to stimulate further research.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nicholas P. Hatton, \u003ci\u003eMedical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter commands an impressive array of languages, and where his own knowledge falters, he has employed assistance to allow him to survey other sources that would otherwise have remained out of reach.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Scull, \u003ci\u003eBrain Journal of Neurology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter has read voluminously in the secondary literature historians of psychiatry have produced. But more importantly, having done so, he has engaged in a positively prodigious amount of work in the archives. One can only admire the persistence and the diligence with which he has combed through an extraordinary array of materials . . . \u003ci\u003eGenetics in the Madhouse\u003c\/i\u003e is gracefully written, and Porter only occasionally gets bogged down in the minutiae of the archival materials he has spent so much time exploring.\"\u003cb\u003e---Andrew Scull, \u003ci\u003eBrain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Porter shows that the population view of mental illness persisted throughout the history of the asylum and flowed logically into the era of eugenics. And he also illustrates that the history of madness helps expand the history of genetics beyond a narrow view of genes. . . . His history makes it impossible to continue the disconnect between the data of the past and the assertions of the present.\"\u003cb\u003e---Laura D. Hirshbein, \u003ci\u003eThe Common Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403812413783,"sku":"9780691164540","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691164540.jpg?v=1730484619","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/genetics-in-the-madhouse-9780691164540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}