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Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickel Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807848968)
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xThis 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: Keith Wailoo
ISBN-10: 0807848964
ISBN-13: 9780807848968
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2001
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d
Award: Lillian Smith Book Awards - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2001 pg. 122
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 155
Publishers Weekly 02/05/2001
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: Keith Wailoo
ISBN-10: 0807848964
ISBN-13: 9780807848968
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2001
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d
Award: Lillian Smith Book Awards - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2001 pg. 122
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 155
Publishers Weekly 02/05/2001
By Keith Wailoo
xAuthor of the award-winning "Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America," Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science.
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