Cache 03: Shadow of the Tree / cache.ch/shadowofthet... examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. Diagrams not only make visible but also obscure, select, and exclude. /1

As Amos Kuster shows in his study of genealogical practices in the Basel clinic, the real, existing social network of patient Robert Häfeli found no representation in the psychiatrists’ statistical research into the heredity of mental illness. /2