Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity by Theodore M. Porter

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Theodore M. Porter with Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

14 hours, 4 minutes missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these cau...

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