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Wexler, Alice, 1942-
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Hedges, Phebe, 1764-1806.
Huntington, George, 1850-1916.
Muncey, E. B.
Huntington's disease -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century.
Huntington's disease -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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The woman who walked...
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The woman who walked into the sea : Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease / Alice Wexler.
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Wexler, Alice, 1942-
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Subjects
Hedges, Phebe, 1764-1806.
Huntington, George, 1850-1916.
Muncey, E. B.
Huntington's disease -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century.
Huntington's disease -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008006389.html
ISBN:
9780300158618
0300158610
9780300105025 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300105029 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
xxiv, 253 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The death of Phebe Hedges -- The social course of St. Vitus's dance -- Inventing hereditary chorea -- Chorea and the clinical gaze -- The eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D. -- Myths of origins and endings.
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Alice Wexlar presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder - Huntington's disease - once demonised as 'the witchcraft disease'.
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