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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 669 pages. Spine cockedWhen 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 dre aded 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. Startin g with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington's as a lens to exp lore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledg e among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses thes e themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century fa mily once said to belong to the disease; the emergence of Huntington's chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disor der into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technol ogies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scie ntific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledg e and the lived experience of this disease.…

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