By Agnès Emery = Par Agnès Emery

Chapter 5 discusses Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, or Duchenne de Boulogne, who played a singularly important role in the history of muscular dystrophy....

Chapter 7 discusses the problem of heterogeneity and the attempts that were made to resolve it....

Chapter 11 discusses ideas of pathogenesis and how at the beginning, the field of research of the disease was dominated by neurologists....

Chapter 8 discusses the evidence available by the end of the last century that there was more than one type of dystrophy and the subsequent problem of classifying them....

Chapter 6 discusses the dramatic rise in interest in the late 1860s and early 1870s about Duchenne muscular dystrophy....

Chapter 10 discusses biochemical diagnosis and carrier detection in Duchenne muscular dystrophy....