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ILLUSTRATIONS
SOME WORDS OF INTEREST
INTRODUCTION - Data-Heredity-Madness
PART I - Recording Heredity
CHAPTER 1 - Bold Claims to Cure a Raving King Let Loose a Cry for Data, 1789-1816
CHAPTER 2 - Narratives of Mad Despair Accumulate as Information, 1818-1845
CHAPTER 3 - New Tools of Tabulation Point to Heredity as the Real Cause, 1840-1855
CHAPTER 4 - The Census of Insanity Tests Its Status as a Disease of Civilization, 1807-1851
PART II - Tabular Reason
CHAPTER 5 - French Alienists Call Heredity Too Deep for Statistics While German Ones Build a Database, 1844-1866
CHAPTER 6 - Dahl Surveys Family Madness in Norway, and Darwin Scrutinizes His Own Family through the Lens of Asylum Data, 1859-1875
CHAPTER 7 - A Standardizing Project out of France Yields to German Systems of Census Cards, 1855-1874
CHAPTER 8 - German Doctors Organize Data to Turn the Tables on Degeneration, 1857-1879
CHAPTER 9 - Alienists Work to Systematize Haphazard Causal Data, 1854-1907
PART III - A Data Science of Human Heredity
CHAPTER 10 - The Human Science of Heredity Takes On a British Crisis of Feeblemindedness, 1884-1910
CHAPTER 11 - Genetic Ratios and Medical Numbers Give Rise to Big Data Ambitions in America, 1902-1920
CHAPTER 12 - German Doctors Link Genetics to Rigorous Disease Categories Then Settle for Statistics, 1895-1920
CHAPTER 13 - Psychiatric Geneticists Create Colossal Databases, Some with Horrifying Purposes, 1920-1939
AFTERMATH - Data Science, Human Genetics, and History
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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