By presenting a historical review of the critical scientific literature for these clinical examples, the narrative provides an excellent demonstration of the sequential, developmental process of scientific discovery and acceptance of disease mechanisms... Recomended.
Choice
Life Histories meticulously traces how the one mutation-one disease ideal has transformed clinical perception in recent decades-but it does so without ceding the ... Read moreprimacy of a clinical thought-style to a molecular one. The book effectively shows that contemporary medicine's embrace of genetic medicine has been a piecemeal development with more continuity across the decades than we have been conditioned to believe.
Social History of Medicine
Hogan paints his picture through an impressively detailed and engaging reconstruction of how it is that physicians and geneticists in the postwar period came to define genetic diseases, correlate them with particular genetic abnormalities, and detect and visualise these abnormalities in patients in the context of prenatal diagnostics. With
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology & Biomedical Science
Deft analysis of visual practices and careful unpacking of the scientific literature make for an engaging read. This fresh alternative to the well-worn heroic narratives of gene sequencing and molecular genetics should be of particular interest to scholars of disability.
Mikey McGovern
New Books Network
Life Histories of Genetic Disease is a well-crafted historical journey exploring the research undertaken into the complex world of genetic disease and heredity... The book is a corpus of historical and scientific detective work, facts and breakthroughs, as well as quotations, metaphors and theories, and is written with purpose and clarity... This book is a great read, with wide appeal, including to anyone interested in medical history, as well as to students and those contemplating a career in the field of medicine and genetics.
Kathryn M. Weston, University of Wollongong
Metascience
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