The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Written By: Alice Wexler
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8510097471
EAN: 9780300105025
ISBN: 0300105029
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Editorial Reviews for The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
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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.
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