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Rushton (pediatrics, Rutgers U.) is primarily concerned with how the 1900 discovery of Gregor Mendel...
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Rushton (pediatrics, Rutgers U.) is primarily concerned with how the 1900 discovery of Gregor Mendel's genetic research changed the theory and practice of medicine in the US. To do so he reviews the ideas about genetics and inheritance during the 19th century, then traces the slow acceptance of new ideas generally and in medical specialties. The study ends at a period when physicians and researchers believed that genetic disorders were of relatively little importance and were also turning away from genetics because of their distaste for eugenics. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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