In the Blood - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

Although it strikes individuals from a variety of backgrounds, sickle cell anemia has always been known as a "black" disease in America. "In the Blood" shows how the disease was used to promote the superiority of racial purity, to characterize the black body as contaminated, and even to support the notion that modern humans evolved from multiple origins.

About the author

Melbourne Tapper

Summary

Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia was used to promote the superiority of racial purity and to characterize the black body as contaminated.

Product details

• Authors: Melbourne Tapper
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780812234718
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3471-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Critical Histories; Critical Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories