In the Blood
Subtitle: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race (Critical Histories)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780812234718
Subjects: Anthropology; Medical research; United States; Medical / Nursing; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Black American Sociology; Medical Anthropology; Sickle cell anemia; Medical; Sociology; USA; Health Care Delivery; Ethics; History; Social Science / African-American Studies; Social aspects; Anthropology - General; Hematology; 20th century; African Americans; Diseases
First sentence: Medical historian David McBride's account of the response of the medical community and the national health agencies in the United States to the tuberculosis epidemic, which ravaged the African community in the first half of the twentieth century, also describes the racialist context in which early research on sickling took place.