Genetics for Medical Students

Abstract

The medical curriculum has long given too little attention to heredity and genetics. This presentation assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and offers the reader a general survey with reference to medicine. The examples are taken primarily from the human being rather than from the fruit fly or the honey bee. The various chapters provide an understanding of the mendelian law of the genes and the blood groups. The explanations are so simple that medical students should be able to follow them with little difficulty. Especially valuable is the section on the detection of inherited characters. Here is a conspicuous example of the author's style and rationality: The question of eugenic reform encroaches upon one of the special preserves of the fanatic, the problem of Race. To some in these days, it has become a creed that such concepts as the British, the Nordic, or the Jewish races have,