Heredity: the formation of an epistemic space / Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Part I: Heredity in the legal context
From clan to kindred: kinship and the circulation of property in premodern and modern Europe / David Warren Sabean
Resemblance, paternity and imagination in early modern courts / Silvia De Renzi
Continuity and death: literature and the law of succession in the nineteenth century / Ulrike Vedder
Part II: Heredity and Medicine
The medical origins of heredity / Carlos López Beltrán
Erasmus Darwin and the "noble" disease (gout): conceptualizing heredity and disease in enlightenment England / Phillip K. Wilson
Degeneration and "alienism" in early nineteenth century France / Laure Cartron
Part III: Natural history, breeding and hybridisation
Figures of inheritance, 1650-1850 / Staffan Müller-Wille
Duchesne's strawberries: between grower's practices and academic knowledge / Marc J. Ratcliff
The sheep breeders' view of heredity before and after 1800 / Roger Wood
Part IV: Theories of Generation and Evolution
Speculation and experiment in enlightenment life sciences / Mary Terrall
Kant on heredity and adaptation / Peter McLaughlin
The delayed linkage of heredity with the cell theory / François Duchesneau
On the shoulders of generations: the new epistemology of heredity in the nineteenth century / Ohad S. Parnes
Las Castas: inter-racial crossing and social structure (1770
1835) / Renato G. Mazzolini
Acquired character: the hereditary material of the "self-made man" / Paul White
"Victor, l'enfant de la forêt": experiments on heredity in savage children / Nicolas Pethes
Sui generis: heredity and heritage of genius at the turn of the eighteenth century / Stefan Willer
Epilogue: The heredity of poetics / Helmuth Müller-Sievers.
