Drawing blood : technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America / Keith Wailoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wailoo, Keith, author.

Series:

The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anemia--Social aspects--United States.

Anemia.

Anemia--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Drawing Blood, medical historian Keith Wailoo uses the story of blood diseases to explain how physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas. As Wailoo's account makes clear, the seemingly straightforward process of identifying disease is invariably influenced.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Putting the Question to Technology

1 "Chlorosis" Remembered: Disease and the Moral Management of American Women

2 The Rise and Fall of Splenic Anemia: Surgical Identity and Ownership of a Blood Disease

3 Blood Work: The Scientific Management of Aplastic Anemia and Industrial Poisoning

4 The Corporate "Conquest" of Pernicious Anemia: Technology, Blood Researchers, and the Consumer

5 Detecting "Negro Blood": Black and White Identities and the Reconstruction of Sickle Cell Anemia

6 "The Forces That Are Molding Us": The National Politics of Blood and Disease after World War II

Conclusion: Disease Identity in the Age of Technological Medicine

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-7029-1

OCLC:

1204143265