TY - BOOK ID - 78641976 TI - Heredity explored : between public domain and experimental science, 1850 - 1930 AU - Mùˆller-Wille, Staffan AU - Brandt, Christina PY - 2016 SN - 0262332272 9780262332279 9780262332262 0262332264 9780262034432 0262034433 0262332280 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Genetics KW - Heredity KW - Biology KW - Embryology KW - Mendel's law KW - Adaptation (Biology) KW - Breeding KW - Chromosomes KW - Mutation (Biology) KW - Variation (Biology) KW - Ancestry KW - Descent KW - Inheritance (Biology) KW - Pangenesis KW - Atavism KW - Eugenics KW - Natural selection KW - History. KW - History KW - Heredity History KW - Heredity 19th century KW - 19th century KW - Genetics History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641976 AB - Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although genetics emerged as a scientific discipline during this period, the idea of inheritance also played a role in a variety of medical, agricultural, industrial, and political contexts. The book, which follows an earlier collection, Heredity Produced (covering the period 1500 to 1870), addresses heredity in national debates over identity, kinship, and reproduction; biopolitical conceptions of heredity, degeneration, and gender; agro-industrial contexts for newly emerging genetic rationality; heredity and medical research; and the genealogical constructs and experimental systems of genetics that turned heredity into a representable and manipulable object. Taken together, the essays in Heredity Explored show that a history of heredity includes much more than the history of genetics, and that knowledge of heredity was always more than the knowledge formulated as Mendelism. It was the broader public discourse of heredity in all its contexts that made modern genetics possible. ER -