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

Author/creator: Wailoo, Keith.

Date: 1997..

Call Numbers: N616.152009/1

Record Identifier: 74VMQZKMQla3

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xii, 288 p. ; 24 cm., 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.

Publishers: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Notes: The Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 616.152009

MMS ID: 991000343669702626