Author: Keith Wailoo
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1469617412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering. Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and many other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its sufferers from the early days of obscurity before sickle cell's "discovery" by Western medicine; through its rise to clinical, scientific, and social prominence in the 1950s; to its politicization in the 1970s and 1980s. Looking forward, he considers the consequences of managed care on the politics of disease in the twenty-first century. A rich and multilayered narrative, Dying in the City of the Blues offers valuable new insight into the African American experience, the impact of race relations and ideologies on health care, and the politics of science, medicine, and disease.
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 892
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 520
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Publisher: Washington
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 1306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
Author: Tennessee State Medical Association
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes the association's Minutes of the annual meeting, beginning with the 75th in 1908.