Moments Of Truth In Genetic Medicine

Author : M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801899157

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Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine by M. Susan Lindee Pdf

Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions, disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core research frontier of biomedicine. Tracing the work of geneticists and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during the explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all disease is understood to be fundamentally genetic. She suggests that these moments of truth were experienced not only by scientists but also by those who had familial, intimate, emotional knowledge of hereditary disease: patients, family members, and research subjects. Focusing on benchmarks in the field—such as the rise of neonatal testing in the 1960s, genetic studies of unique human populations such as the Amish, the development of human cytogenetics and human behavioral genetics, and the efforts to find genes for rare diseases such as familial dysautonomia—she tracks the emergence of a biomedical consensus that nearly all disease is genetic disease. Using the success of this field as a point of entry, Lindee chronicles both the production of knowledge in biomedicine and changes in the cultural meaning of the body in the late twentieth century. She suggests that scientific knowledge is a community project that is shaped directly by people in many different social and professional locations. The power to experience and report scientific truth may be much more dispersed than it sometimes appears, because people know things about their own bodies, and their knowledge has often been incorporated into the technical infrastructure of genomic medicine. Lindee's pathbreaking study shows the interdependence of technical and social parameters in contemporary biomedicine.

Author : M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801891014

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Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine by M. Susan Lindee Pdf

Medical genetics.

Author : Peter S. Harper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190208394

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A Short History of Medical Genetics by Peter S. Harper Pdf

An eminent geneticist, veteran author, OMMG Series Editor, and noted archivist, Peter Harper presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep interest in its historical aspects. Dr. Harper has researched the history of genetics and has had personal contact with a host of key figures whose memories and experiences extend back 50 years, and he has interviewed and recorded conversations with many of these important geneticists. Thus, rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing- and sometimes retarding- the field. From the origins of human genetics; through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants; the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities; and up through the completion of the Human Genome project, this Short History is written in the author's characteristic clear and personal style, which appeals to geneticists and to all those interested in the story of human genetics.

Author : John C. Burnham
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421416090

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Health Care in America by John C. Burnham Pdf

A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132685921

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert J. Wilensky
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0896725324

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Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds by Robert J. Wilensky Pdf

"Most important, there is no evidence that the good will built by U.S. doctors transferred to the South Vietnamese forces, and in fact the opposite may have been true: American programs may have emphasized the inability of the South Vietnamese government to provide basic health care to its own people. Furthermore, the programs may have demonstrated to Vietnamese civilians that foreign soldiers cared more for them than their own troops did. If that is the case, the programs actually did more harm than good in the attempt to win hearts and minds."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medicine
ISBN : NWU:35556038583290

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Bulletin of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Includes the Transactions of the 15th- annual meetings of the American Association of the History of Medicine, 1939-

Author : Oregon Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : UCR:31210021908536

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Oregon Historical Quarterly by Oregon Historical Society Pdf

Author : M. Susan Lindee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674919181

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Rational Fog by M. Susan Lindee Pdf

A thought-provoking examination of the intersections of knowledge and violence, and the quandaries and costs of modern, technoscientific warfare. Science and violence converge in modern warfare. While the finest minds of the twentieth century have improved human life, they have also produced human injury. They engineered radar, developed electronic computers, and helped mass produce penicillin all in the context of military mobilization. Scientists also developed chemical weapons, atomic bombs, and psychological warfare strategies. Rational Fog explores the quandary of scientific and technological productivity in an era of perpetual war. Science is, at its foundation, an international endeavor oriented toward advancing human welfare. At the same time, it has been nationalistic and militaristic in times of crisis and conflict. As our weapons have become more powerful, scientists have struggled to reconcile these tensions, engaging in heated debates over the problems inherent in exploiting science for military purposes. M. Susan Lindee examines this interplay between science and state violence and takes stock of researchers’ efforts to respond. Many scientists who wanted to distance their work from killing have found it difficult and have succumbed to the exigencies of war. Indeed, Lindee notes that scientists who otherwise oppose violence have sometimes been swept up in the spirit of militarism when war breaks out. From the first uses of the gun to the mass production of DDT and the twenty-first-century battlefield of the mind, the science of war has achieved remarkable things at great human cost. Rational Fog reminds us that, for scientists and for us all, moral costs sometimes mount alongside technological and scientific advances.

Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015073863238

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The African American National Biography: Moore, Lenny-Romain by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.),Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.

Author : David Cantor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131650868

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Cancer in the Twentieth Century by David Cantor Pdf

This collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, control programs emerged in the early twentieth century, and most were focused on early detection and treatment. Yet, those initiatives took very different forms in different countries. Experts disagreed on how to persuade the public to go to their doctors, what should be the role of public education, how cancer services should be delivered, who should provide them, which forms of therapy were most appropriate to particular cancers, and where to draw the line between therapy and prevention. Focusing on the United States and Britain, this volume examines why these differences emerged, how they shaped national programs of control, and how control programs in the early twentieth century presaged and set the conditions for the emergence of prevention-oriented programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring works by leading medical historians on subjects such as the portrayal of cancer in the movies, feminist surgeons, risk factors for breast cancer, and the emergence of clinical trials, Cancer in the Twentieth Century will engage historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.

Author : Andrew J. Hogan
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421420752

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Life Histories of Genetic Disease by Andrew J. Hogan Pdf

A richly detailed history that “uncovers the challenges and limitations of our increasing reliance on genetic data in medical decision making” (Shobita Parthasarathy, author of Building Genetic Medicine). Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing expectant parents to test prenatally for hundreds of disease-specific mutations using powerful genetic testing platforms. In this book, Andrew J. Hogan explores how various diseases were “made genetic” after 1960, with the long-term aim of treating and curing them using gene therapy. In the process, he explains, these disorders were located in the human genome and became targets for prenatal prevention, while the ongoing promise of gene therapy remained on the distant horizon. In narrating the history of research that contributed to diagnostic genetic medicine, Hogan describes the expanding scope of prenatal diagnosis and prevention. He draws on case studies of Prader-Willi, fragile X, DiGeorge, and velo-cardio-facial syndromes to illustrate that almost all testing in medical genetics is inseparable from the larger—and increasingly “big data”–oriented—aims of biomedical research. Hogan also reveals how contemporary genetic testing infrastructure reflects an intense collaboration among cytogeneticists, molecular biologists, and doctors specializing in human malformation. Hogan critiques the modern ideology of genetic prevention, which suggests all pregnancies are at risk for genetic disease and should be subject to extensive genomic screening. He examines the dilemmas and ethics of the use of prenatal diagnostic information in an era when medical geneticists and biotechnology companies offer whole genome prenatal screening—essentially searching for any disease-causing mutation. Hogan’s analysis is animated by ongoing scientific and scholarly debates about the extent to which the preventive focus in contemporary medical genetics resembles the aims of earlier eugenicists. Written for historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science and medicine, as well as bioethics scholars, physicians, geneticists, and families affected by genetic conditions, Life Histories of Genetic Disease is a profound exploration of the scientific culture surrounding malformation and mutation.

Author : Margot Lynn Iverson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01048148B

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Blood Types by Margot Lynn Iverson Pdf

Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801887151

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Our Present Complaint by Charles E. Rosenberg Pdf

At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how lessons from history can improve its prognosis.--Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. "Journal of the History of Medicine"

Author : Karen-Sue Taussig
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124129110

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Ordinary Genomes by Karen-Sue Taussig Pdf

DIVExplores the mutually constructive relationship between increasing scientific knowledge of human genetics and cultural identity through a case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands./div