عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
RC394.H85 W52 2008eb
RC394
.
H85
W52
2008eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0300151772
(Number (ISBN
0300158610
(Number (ISBN
9780300151770
(Number (ISBN
9780300158618
Erroneous ISBN
0300105029
Erroneous ISBN
128235177X
Erroneous ISBN
9780300105025
Erroneous ISBN
9781282351776
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b742897
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The woman who walked into the sea :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease /
First Statement of Responsibility
Alice Wexler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New Haven :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Yale University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, map, portraits
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-241) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
The death of Phebe Hedges -- The social course of St. Vitus's dance -- Inventing hereditary chorea -- Chorea and the clinical gaze -- The eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D. -- Myths of origins and endings.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St. Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington's chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington's in America. Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington's as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to "belong to the disease"; the emergence of Huntington's chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
OverDrive, Inc.
Stock Number
22573/ctt1nkspg
Stock Number
B0591EF9-E8DC-4E17-879A-28BBF74FD859
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Woman who walked into the sea.
International Standard Book Number
9780300105025
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hedges, Phebe,1764-1806.
Huntington, George,1850-1916.
Muncey, E. B.
Hedges, Phebe,1764-1806
Huntington, George,1850-1916
Muncey, E. B
Hedges, Phebe,1764-1806.
Huntington, George,1850-1916.
Muncey, E. B.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Huntington's disease-- New York (State)-- History-- 19th century.
Huntington's disease-- New York (State)-- History-- 20th century.
Eugenics-- history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Huntington Disease-- history.
HISTORY-- Social History.
Huntington's disease.
PSYCHOLOGY-- Neuropsychology.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
New York.
New York (State)
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
HEA039110
HIS054000
K
PSY-- 020000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
616
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8/510097471
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RC394
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H85
Book number
W52
2008eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2008
K-871
Class number
WL
11
AN6
Book Number
W545w
2008
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Wexler, Alice,1942-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204033107.0
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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