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Author Wexler, Alice, 1942-

Title The woman who walked into the sea : Huntington's and the making of a genetic disease / Alice Wexler.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-241) and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject 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.
Eugenics -- history.
Huntington Disease -- history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
New York.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Other Form: Print version: Wexler, Alice, 1942- Woman who walked into the sea. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 9780300105025 (DLC) 2008006389 (OCoLC)192042294
ISBN 9780300151770 (electronic bk.)
0300151772 (electronic bk.)
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