History of Human Genetics

Introduction Heike I. Petermann, Peter S. Harper, and Susanne Doetz
Part I Workshops on the History of Human Genetics
The International Workshops on Genetics, Medicine and History:An Overview, 2003-2015Peter S. Harper and Heike I. Petermann
Part II Beginning of Human Genetics
Ancestral Concepts of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicinein Epicurean Philosophy Christos Yapijakis
Bateson and the Doctors: The Introduction of Mendelian Geneticsto the British Medical Community 1900-1910Alan R. Rushton
Part III Genetics and Medicine
Pedigrees and Prejudices: Pre-WWII Inherited Disease Classificationat the US Eugenics Record OfficePhilip K. Wilson
Aldred Scott Warthin's Family 'G': The American Plot Against Cancerand Heredity (1895-1940)Toine Pieters
Genetic Discrimination in the Doctoring of Cancer and Alcoholism Stephen Snelders, Charles D. Kaplan, Frans J. Meijman, and Toine Pieters
The Genomization of Biology: CounterbalancingRadical ReductionismRicardo Noguera-Solano, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutierrez,and Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Caso
A Brief History of Uncertainty in Medical Genetics and Genomics Reed E. Pyeritz
Part IV Countries
"Nature's Laboratories of Human Genetics": Alpine Isolates,Hereditary Diseases and Medical Genetic Fieldwork, 1920-1970Pascal Germann
Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The HistoricalMisrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and SterilizationNils Roll-Hansen
Changing the Point of View: The History of Human Genetics as anApplied Science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1975Heike I. Petermann
Herbert Bach (1926-1996): One of the Pioneers of Human Geneticsin East Germany (GDR) JEURorg Pittelkow
Concise History of Prenatal Diagnostic Service in RussiaVladislav S. Baranov
Foundation of the International Federation of Human Genetic Societies:The Catalyst Karen Birmingham
Part V Gene Mapping
The First Human Genetic Map 1936Alan R. Rushton
Glasgow Contributions to Human Gene MappingMalcolm A.

Heike I. Petermann studied history and German literature at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen. Her two main fields of interests are the history of anaesthesiology and the history human genetics. Since 2000 she has been secretary of the DGAI's Arbeitskreis für Geschichte der Anästhesie. She was also member of editorial office of 55 years German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Tradition and Innovation. In 2011 she started her own research project on the history of human genetics, funded by the DFG. She has also been involved in organising international conferences.

Peter S. Harper was born in Barnstaple, UK, and was educated at Oxford University, with medical training in London. After clinical posts in neurology and paediatrics he entered the field of medical genetics and worked first in Liverpool with Cyril Clarke and then as research fellow with Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. After completing his doctoral thesis, in 1971 he founded and developed a medical genetics institute at the School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales, where he continued his research on myotonic dystrophy, together with research on Huntington's disease and other neurogenetic disorders.His work has made a major contribution to our understanding of these and other disorders; he also developed a comprehensive medical genetics service for Wales. His many publications include Practical Genetic Counselling, which is now in its 7th edition and has been translated into numerous languages.In the past 15 years he has focused on documenting and preserving the history of human and medical genetics, founding the "Genetics and Medicine Historical Network" and publishing a number of books with a historical theme, including A Short History of Medical Genetics(2008).

Susanne Doetz studied medicine at the Humboldt Universität/Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She is a visiting scientist at the Institute of History of Medicine and Ethics