The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (Paperback)

Alice Wexler

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010

0300158610 / 9780300158618

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Paperback. A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as the witchcraft disease 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 Huntingtons chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntingtons in America.Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntingtons 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 Huntingtons 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. A groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as the witchcraft disease This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (Paperback)
Autore
Alice Wexler
Editore
Yale University Press, New Haven
Anno di pubblicazione
2010
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0300158610
ISBN 13
9780300158618

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