Madness and Genetic Determinism Is Mental Illness in Our Genes? /

• Main Author: Hahn, Patrick D. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Behavior genetics.; Biological psychology.; Psychopharmacology.; Medicine-History.; Behavioral Genetics.; Biological Psychology.; History of Medicine.

This book explores the history of genetic determinist theories of mental illness, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing right up to the present day. A century of research in the field of psychiatric genetics, from family studies to twin studies to adoption studies to genome-wide associa...