The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of Human Heredity In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books.
Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection of hereditary data in asylums and prisons gave rise.
Almost from the beginning, they pointed to Heredity as the most important of these causes.
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of Human Heredity In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books