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Presents the classical principles of human genetics as applied to medicine as well as a new emphasis on molecular genetics and the treatment of genetic disease. Includes new, updated chapters on chromosomes, gene mapping and the human genome project, molecular basis of disease, and genetics of cancer. It presents three new appendices on chromosome banding ISCN diagrams, CHI square, and the Lod score table. Updated problems and answers are available for all chapters. An undergraduate textbook, it is also useful to health practitioners.
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada. Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and...