CONTENTS

List of IllustrationsVII

Some Words of InterestXI

Introduction - Data-Heredity-Madness1

PART I - RECORDING HEREDITY15

CHAPTER 1 - Bold Claims to Cure a Raving King Let Loose a Cry for Data, 1789-181619

CHAPTER 2 - Narratives of Mad Despair Accumulate as Information, 1818-184534

CHAPTER 3 - New Tools of Tabulation Point to Heredity as the Real Cause, 1840-185558

CHAPTER 4 - The Census of Insanity Tests Its Status as a Disease of Civilization, 1807-185179

PART II - TABULAR REASON101

CHAPTER 5 - French Alienists Call Heredity Too Deep for Statistics While German Ones Build a Database, 1844-1866105

CHAPTER 6 - Dahl Surveys Family Madness in Norway, and Darwin Scrutinizes His Own Family through the Lens of Asylum Data, 1859-1875128

CHAPTER 7 - A Standardizing Project out of France Yields to German Systems of Census Cards, 1855-1874150

CHAPTER 8 - German Doctors Organize Data to Turn the Tables on Degeneration, 1857-1879179

CHAPTER 9 - Alienists Work to Systematize Haphazard Causal Data, 1854-1907197

PART III - A DATA SCIENCE OF HUMAN HEREDITY217

CHAPTER 10 - The Human Science of Heredity Takes On a British Crisis of Feeblemindedness, 1884-1910221

CHAPTER 11 - Genetic Ratios and Medical Numbers Give Rise to Big Data Ambitions in America, 1902-1920251

CHAPTER 12 - German Doctors Link Genetics to Rigorous Disease Categories Then Settle for Statistics, 1895-1920281

CHAPTER 13 - Psychiatric Geneticists Create Colossal Databases, Some with Horrifying Purposes, 1920-1939316

Aftermath - Data Science, Human Genetics, and History342

Acknowledgments351

Bibliography407