Dying in the City of the Blues - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health

Traces the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States including the establishment of the first sickle cell clinics in Memphis in the 1950s and the impact of medical development.

About the author

Author 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.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Wailoo
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780807848968
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4896-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Medicine (Pa; Studies in Social Medicine (Pa; Studies in Social Medicine
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General