Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Harper, Peter S.

Title A short history of medical genetics [electronic resource] / Peter S. Harper.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 557 p. : ill., maps.
Series Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; 57
Oxford monographs on medical genetics ; no. 57.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-538) and index.
Contents Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Medical genetics -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780195187502 (alk. paper)
0195187504 (alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only