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: 9780300105025

ISBN-10: 0300105029

ISBN-13: 9780300105025

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alice Wexler

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"This book is a 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 Huntington's chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington's in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Family/Community



The Death of Phebe Hedges



The Social Course of St. Vitus's Dance


Community/Medicine



Inventing Hereditary Chorea



Chorea and the Clinical Gaze


Medicine/Eugenics/Memory



The Eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D.



Myths of Origins and Endings


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index