Leeming, William (2010) Tracing the shifting sands of ‘medical genetics’: what’s in a name? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41 (1). pp. 50-60. ISSN 13698486

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Abstract

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 that the unfolding relationship between medicine and genetics can best be understood against the background of the shift in emphasis in conceptualisations of recurring patterns of disease in families from ‘biological relatedness’ to ‘related to chromosomes and genes.’ The paper begins with brief considerations of the historical confluences of, first, heredity and medicine and, second, genetics and medicine which, in a third section, leads to a discussion about a uniquely ‘genetics-based approach’ to medicine in the second half of the twentieth-century.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	18 May 2016 15:56
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2021 20:02
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/858

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