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Drawing Blood

  • ISBN 9780801861819
  • Author: Wailoo, Keith (Professor of History, Princeton University)
  • Publ Date: 1999-02-15
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  • Binding: Paperback / softback

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In this volume, medical historian Keith Wailoo uses the story of blood diseases to explain how physicians in the 20th century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas. The account emphasizes that the seemingly straightforward process of identifying disease is invariably influenced by personal, professional and social factors - and that the result is not only clarity and precision but also bias and outright error. The work offers to reveal the ways in which physicians and patients as well as diseases are simultaneously shaping and being shaped by technology, medical professionalization, and society at large. This cultural history of disease, medicine and technology presents a perspective that should help understanding of discussions of HIV and AIDS, genetic blood testing, prostate-specific antigen, and other important issues in an age of technological medicine.
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