Genetics and Medicine in the United States 1800-1922

Investigates the relationship between develop. in the science of genetics & the clinical practice of med. in the U.S. Shows how physicians first doubted, then slowly accepted, the relevance of Mendel¿s work for human heredity. The modern synthesis of cytology & genetics by 1910 was widely discussed in the medical community, & by 1915 physicians began to recognize that the transmission of various human disorders such as hemophilia fit the Mendelian model. Yet by the 1920s, progress had reached a standstill, due to greater interest in such bacteriological diseases as TB & to the fact that many physicians permitted their ethical objections to eugenics theories, embraced by genetics researchers, to color their judgment of the research itself. Illus.Rushton, Alan R. is the author of 'Genetics and Medicine in the United States 1800-1922', published 2008 under ISBN 9781422394243 and ISBN 1422394247.