PublishedInvestigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Brandt, C

Müller-Wille, S

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Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page i of 12 Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 Fornt Matter and List of Contents, final version before proofs For pdfs of their chapters, please contact authors individually Heredity Explored   Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page ii of 12 Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Jed Z. Buchwald, general editor Dolores L. Augustine, Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945–1990 Lawrence Badash, A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s Lino Camprubí, Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime Mordechai Feingold, editor, Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters Larrie D. Ferreiro, Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800 Gabriel Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Isabel da Silva Araújo Simões, Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry Sander Gliboff, H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method Kristine Harper, Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology Sungook Hong, Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audion Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830 Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page iii of 12 Alexandra Hui, The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840–1910 Myles W. Jackson, The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race Myles W. Jackson, Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany Myles W. Jackson, Spectrum of Belief: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics Paul R. Josephson, Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov’s Life in Communist Science Mi Gyung Kim, Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre, Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe Janis Langins, Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution Wolfgang Lefèvre, editor, Picturing Machines 1400–1700 Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, editors, Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500–1870 Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page iv of 12 Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt, editors, Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton, editors, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Naomi Oreskes and John Krige, editors, Science and Technology in the Global Cold War Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi, editors, Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe Alan J. Rocke, Nationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance Suman Seth, Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926. William Thomas, Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960 Leslie Tomory, Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry 1780–1820 Nicolás Wey Gómez, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies   Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page v of 12 Heredity Explored Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930 Edited by Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England   Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page vi of 12 © 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in _______ by _______. Printed and bound in the United States of America. {Comp: Please fill in font, compositor, and location} Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  Names: Müller-Wille, Staffan, 1964– , editor. | Brandt, Christina, editor. Title: Heredity explored : between public domain and experimental science,     1850–1930 / Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt, eds. Other titles: Transformations (M.I.T. Press) Description: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016] | Series: Transformations :     studies in the history of science and technology | Includes     bibliographical references and index. Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page vii of 12 Identifiers: LCCN 2015039949 | ISBN 9780262034432 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: | MESH: Genetics--history. | History, 19th Century. | History, 20th Century. Classification: LCC QH428 | NLM QU 11.1 | DDC 576.5--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015039949 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1   Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page viii of 12 I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy, “Heredity” (1917)* *Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (London: Macmillan, 1917), 15. We would like to thank Carlos López Beltrán for drawing our attention to these verses.   Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page ix of 12 Contents Introduction 1 From Heredity to Genetics: Political, Medical, and Agro-Industrial Contexts Staffan Müller-Wille and Christina Brandt Genealogy, Kinship, and Population 2 The Bachelor: A Case of Failed Generativity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Ulrike Vedder 3 Eugenics without Eugenists? Anglo-American Critiques of Cousin Marriage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Diane B. Paul and Hamish G. Spencer 4 Asylums of Hereditary Research in the Efficient Modern State Theodore M. Porter 5 The Emancipatory Power of Heredity: Anthropological Discourse and Jewish Integration in Germany, 1892–1935 Veronika Lipphardt Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page x of 12 Heredity, Evolution, and Reproduction 6 Heredity before Genetics Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille 7 Natural Selection, Regression, and Heredity in Darwinian  and Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Jean Gayon 8 Concepts of Gender Difference in Genetics Helga Satzinger Heredity in Agro-Industrial Contexts 9 Pure Lines as Industrial Simulacra: A Cultural History of Genetics from Darwin to Johannsen Christophe Bonneuil 10 Message in a Bottle: Vaccines and the Nature of Heredity after 1880 J. Andrew Mendelsohn 11 Clonal Patents: A Convergence of Heredity and Invention Alain Pottage Heredity in Medical Contexts Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page xi of 12 12 The Prenatal: Contingencies of Procreation and Transmission in the Nineteenth Century Caroline Arni 13 The Hereditary Transmission of Human Pathologies between 1900 and 1940: The Good Reasons Not to Become “Mendelian” Jean-Paul Gaudillière and Ilana Löwy 14 In Search of the Ideal Population: The Study of Human Heredity before and after the Mendelian Break Bernd Gausemeier Mendelism 15 Revisiting the Origin of Genetics Staffan Müller-Wille and Marsha L. Richmond 16 Transatlantic Mutants: Evolution, Epistemics, and the Engineering of Variation, 1903–1930 Luis Campos and Alexander von Schwerin 17 “Pure Lines” in the Laboratory: Protozoa as Research Models in Early Twentieth Century Heredity Studies Christina Brandt and Judy Johns Schloegel Authors: This is your final opportunity to revise. The MIT Press does not allow revision of content in page proofs. Page xii of 12 About the Authors Index 

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