How physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Putting the Question to Technology
Chapter 1. "Chlorosis" Remembered: Disease and the Moral Management
of American Women
Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Splenic Anemia: Surgical Identity
and Ownership of a Blood Disease
Chapter 3. Blood Work: The Scientific Management of Aplastic Anemia
and Industrial Poisoning
Chapter 4. The Corporate "Conquest" of Pernicious Anemia:
Technology, Blood Researchers, and the Consumer
Chapter 5. Detecting "Negro Blood": Black and White Identities and
the Reconstruction of Sickle Cell Anemia
Chapter 6. "The Forces That Are Molding Us": The National Politics
of Blood and Disease After World War II
Conclusion: Disease Identity in the Age of Technological
Medicine
Notes
Index
Keith Wailoo is an associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine and the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Wailoo's analysis breaks new ground . . . he uses a wide array of
sources and types of data to carry out an insightful analysis of a
diverse sample of 20th-century hematologic diseases.
—Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D., 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
Boldly and skillfully, Wailoo analyzes not only the role of
physicians but of research hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
In addition, he shows how things like race, gender, and lifestyle
influenced how physicians defined and responded to the very
diseases that were called into existence by the new technologies
they employed.
—American Historical Review
Makes clear that the high stakes involved in medical technology are
not just financial, but moral and far reaching. They have been
harnessed to describe clinical phenomena and to reflect social and
cultural realities that influence not only medical treatment but
self-identity, power, and authority.
—Susan E. Lederer, H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net
Wailoo's masterful study of hematology and its disease discourse is
a model of interdisciplinarity, combining cultural analysis, social
history, and the history of medical ideas and technology to produce
a complex narrative of disease definition, diagnosis, and treatment
. . . He reminds us that medical technology is a neutral artifact
of history. It can be, and has been, used to clarify and to cloud
the understanding of disease, and it has the potential both to
constrain and to emancipate its subjects.
—Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Pain: A Political History isn't your usual medical focus, but
provides socio-political emphasis on compassionate relief and
society's liberal trends and conservative actions, discussing the
development of pain theories in politics, law and social circles
and how the evolution of a post-war pain relief economy in response
to recovering soldiers fostered the rise of a liberal pain standard
and changing attitudes about pain's realities and limitations. Its
wide-ranging and unusual focus makes this a "must" not necessarily
for health holdings, but for those looking at the bigger
picture.
—James A Cox, The Midwest Book Review
A lively and readable account of the complex and evolving interplay
between pain medicine, public policy and politics in the United
States.
—Medical History
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