Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

Name: Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
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ISBN: 9780300158618

ISBN-10: 0300158610

ISBN-13: 9780300158618

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alice Wexler

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Family/Community



The Death of Phebe Hedges



The Social Course of St. Virus's Dance


Community/Medicine



Inventing Hereditary Chorea



Chorea and the Clinical Gaze


Medicine/Eugenics/Memory



The Eyes of




Myths of Origins and Endings


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index