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Tracing the shifting sands of 'medical genetics': what's in a name?

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Mar 2010

Leeming William

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This paper focuses on the structural development of institution-based interest in genetics in Anglo-North American medicine after 1930 concomitantly with an analysis of the changes through which ideas about heredity and the hereditary transmission of diseases in families have passed. It maintains...

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PMID: 20185084
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2009.12.003

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