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.
Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most
important of these causes. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold
story of how the collection of hereditary data in asylums and
prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. Theodore
Porter looks at the institutional use of innovative quantitative
practices-such as pedigree charts and censuses of mental
illness-that were worked out in the madhouse long before the
manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Genetics in the
Madhouse brings to light the hidden history behind modern genetics
and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data
work conducted at the border of subjectivity and science.
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