Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-century America - Rilegato

Wailoo, Keith

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ISBN 10: 0801854741 ISBN 13: 9780801854743

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Riassunto

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.

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"Wailoo's [Drawing Blood] breaks new ground." -- The New England Journal of Medicine

"This book is a marvelous example of how many threads can be spun together to create a compelling narrative. It interweaves histories of disease over the past century, of technology, of hematology, and of medicine in the broadest sense....This book [is] a fine history of the practice of medicine... Drawing Blood is first-class history at many levels and can be read with profit and pleasure by the clinician, historian, non-medical scientist, and interested layperson." -- Science

"A major contribution to the social history of medicine and to the growing literature on professionalization." -- American Historical Review

Descrizione del libro:

How physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801854741
• ISBN 13: 9780801854743
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320