This short interlude prompts reflection on the transformations involved in data mobilization through a vivid discussion of the changing circumstances of the visualization of data about family histories of mental illness - and their interpretation in relation to questions around inheritability and underpinning biological causes - through graphs and tables produced between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
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Porter, T. M. (2020). Most often, what is transmitted is transformed. In Data Journeys in the Sciences (pp. 229–236). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37177-7_12
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