Drawing Blood
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5474-3 (ISBN)
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 by personal, professional and social factors - and the result is not only clarity and precision but also bias and outright error. The long-diagnozed condition of chlorosis in adolescent girls, for example, disappeared as women began assuming new roles in American society and challenging the notion of the "delicate female". The clinical status of some conditions reflected the fate of the experts who had defined and treated them - "splenic anaemia" vanished quickly when "abdominal surgeons" lost autonomy in matters of diagnosis as the hospital itself changed. Even current understandings of diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, pernicious anaemia, leukaemia and prostate cancer, Wailoo argues, have been shaped by medical technology's interaction with issues of race, identity, politics and economics.
Keith Wailoo is an associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine and the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Putting the Question to Technology
Chapter 1. "Chlorosis" Remembered: Disease and the Moral Management of American Women
Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Splenic Anemia: Surgical Identity and Ownership of a Blood Disease
Chapter 3. Blood Work: The Scientific Management of Aplastic Anemia and Industrial Poisoning
Chapter 4. The Corporate "Conquest" of Pernicious Anemia: Technology, Blood Researchers, and the Consumer
Chapter 5. Detecting "Negro Blood": Black and White Identities and the Reconstruction of Sickle Cell Anemia
Chapter 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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.6.1997 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-5474-1 / 0801854741 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-5474-3 / 9780801854743 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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