The Woman Who Walked into the Sea : Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease.
Title:
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea : Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease.
Author:
Wexler, Alice.
ISBN:
9780300151770
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Family/Community -- ONE: The Death of Phebe Hedges -- TWO: The Social Course of St. Vitus's Dance -- Community/Medicine -- THREE: Inventing Hereditary Chorea -- FOUR: Chorea and the Clinical Gaze -- Medicine/Eugenics/Memory -- FIVE: The Eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D. -- SIX: Myths of Origins and Endings -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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