The Galton-Garrod Society
The Galton-Garrod Society
This chapter discusses the history of the Galton-Garrod society, a journal club started by four researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in 1950. This journal club was an interdisciplinary one; as its four founders Victor McKusic, Abraham Lilenfeld, H. Bentley Glass, and Barton Childs came from different areas of medical disciplines. It explains that the subject that the journal club handles is that of the medical genetics, a rather exotic and sensitive theme. It notes that the Galton-Garrod society made the nucleation of the medical genetics study at Hopkins, making it the hub for the said field in years to come.
Keywords: medical genetics, Galton-Garrod Society, Barton Childs, Victor McKusic, Abraham Lilenfeld, H. Bentley Glass, journal club
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