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Rushton, Alan R. was born on March 10, 1949 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of Raymond H. and D. Loree (Swan) Rushton.
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An intensive historical study of the hereditary diseases hemophilia and porphyria in the personal and political lives of the European royal families Part I Nineteenth century medical knowledge of hemophilia as a hereditary bleeding disorder will be considered. Hemophilia appeared in a son born to Queen Victoria in 1853. Hemophilia was transmitted through Victoria’s unaffected daughters to the ruling houses in Germany, Russia and Spain. The political consequences of a chronically ill male heir to the throne fostered the demise of the royal families in these countries. The royal physicians were well aware of the hereditary nature of hemophilia and failed to advise the British royal family on this matter that had significant political consequences for the modern world. Part II The “Madness of King George III” resulted from variegate porphyria, an inherited disorder of heme metabolism. The disorder was evident in: The immediate family of George III, Ancestors from at least the 13th century, Descendents into the 20th century. The malady was inherited by other ruling houses in continental Europe and affected political life there for over six centuries. Genetic analysis will consider how such an anomaly could have been inherited through so many successive generations. Preliminary DNA evidence will be considered to document variegate porphyria in living relatives of the British royal family. Alternate history if these disorders had not plagued the royal families will be considered in conclusion.
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For centuries, physicians observed that certain disorders were hereditary: they “ran in the family.” Genetics and Medicine is the first comprehensive historical study to examine the close professional relationship between British scientists studying the nature of heredity and the practicing physicians of the day. In the 17th century, scientists and physician members of the Royal Society investigated the interaction of human heredity and disease. The biologists Charles Darwin and Francis Galton both had medical training and worked closely with physicians during the 19th century to define specific patterns of inheritance for a variety of inherited disorders. The application of Gregor Mendel’s theory of heredity after 1900 by the geneticist William Bateson and the statistician Karl Pearson furthered the close collaboration between scientists and physicians during the decades before World War II that has defined the present-day understanding of the scope of modern “medical” genetics.
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This book investigates the relationship between developments in the science of genetics and the clinical practice of medicine in the United States. Rushton shows how physicians first doubted, then slowly accepted, the relevance of Mendel's work for human heredity. The modern synthesis of cytology and genetics, which explained the inheritance of specific characters by the segregation of genes on the chromosomes of egg and sperm, was widely discussed in the medical community by 1910. By 1915, physicians began to recognize that the transmission of such human disorders as haemophilia, Huntington chorea, and Tay-Sachs disease fit the Mendelian model. Yet by the early 1920s, Rushton explains, progress had reached a near standstill. First, physicians were becoming convinced that genetic illness was relatively rare compared with such bacteriological diseases as tuberculosis, which posed a far more visible threat to public health. In addition, many physicians permitted their ethical objections to eugenics theories, increasingly embraced by genetics researchers, to colour their judgment of the research itself.
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historian medical researcher physician
Rushton, Alan R. was born on March 10, 1949 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of Raymond H. and D. Loree (Swan) Rushton.
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics, University Chicago, 1975. Doctor of Medicine, University Chicago, 1977.
Resident, intern Yale University-New Haven Hospital, Connecticut, 1977-1980. Physician Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington, New Jersey, since 1980. Associate clinical professor pediatrics Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, since 1980.
Lecturer genetics Princeton University, New Jersey, 1980-1984. Adjunct professor Medical University Americans, Nevis, West Indies.
(An intensive historical study of the hereditary diseases ...)
(This book investigates the relationship between developme...)
(For centuries, physicians observed that certain disorders...)
Fellow American Academy Pediatrics, American College Medical Genetics, New York Academy of Medicine, Royal Society Medicine. Member American Association History Medicine, History Science Society.
Married Nancy Spencer, May 5, 1973. Children: Andrew, Daniel.