profhelenward.bsky.social
Prof Public Health Imperial College. she/her. Social, genetic & environmental factors in health. Research & advocacy in long COVID, STI/HIV, inequalities. Patient Experience Research Centre
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@profhelenward.bsky.socialFrom Aristotle to the end of the C19, people believed that mutilation could be transmitted to offsping (e.g. amputees giving birth to amputated children). The earliest use of the obvious counter-example seems to have been in Prichard’s “Researches into the physical history of man” (1813):
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