The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
Contents
Foreword Nancy S. Wexler.......................................ix
Acknowledgments................................................xiii
Introduction...................................................xvii
Family/Community
ONE The Death of Phebe Hedges..................................3
TWO The Social Course of St. Vitus's Dance.....................22
Community/Medicine
THREE Inventing Hereditary Chorea..............................57
FOUR Chorea and the Clinical Gaze..............................94
Medicine/Eugenics/Memory
FIVE The Eyes of Elizabeth B. Muncey, M.D......................125
SIX Myths of Origins and Endings...............................151
List of Abbreviations..........................................187
Notes..........................................................189
Index..........................................................243
Chapter One
The Death of Phebe Hedges
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