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 argues that ever since the discovery in 1910 and subsequent scientific analysis of the disease, sickle cell anemia has been manipulated to serve social ends-as a tool for securing white identity and a way to establish a hierarchy based on European heritage. Tapper shows how sickle cell anemia 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.
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Medical historian David McBride's account of the response of the medical community and the national health agencies in the United States to the tuberculosis epidemic, which ravaged the African community in the first half of the twentieth century, also describes the racialist context in which early research on sickling took place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sickling researchers, sociomedical racialism, colonial medics, sickling rates, racialist anthropology, colonial medical discourse, scientific epidemiology, sickling trait, sickling gene, racial disease, ethnological significance, sickle cell trait, racial admixture, discourse networks, sickle cell anemia, sickle cell gene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, East African, Northern Rhodesia, Senator Edward Kennedy, Black Caribs, Negro American, New World, Senator Kennedy, Southern Europeans, West Africa, District Officer, Elmer Anderson, Moynihan Report, National Sickle Cell Anemia Prevention Act, South India, North American, Upper Zambesi, Zambesi River New!
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Medical historian David McBride's account of the response of the medical community and the national health agencies in the United States to the tuberculosis epidemic, which ravaged the African community in the first half of the twentieth century, also describes the racialist context in which early research on sickling took place. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sickling researchers, sociomedical racialism, colonial medics, sickling rates, racialist anthropology, colonial medical discourse, scientific epidemiology, sickling trait, sickling gene, racial disease, ethnological significance, sickle cell trait, racial admixture, discourse networks, sickle cell anemia, sickle cell gene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, United States, East African, Northern Rhodesia, Senator Edward Kennedy, Black Caribs, Negro American, New World, Senator Kennedy, Southern Europeans, West Africa, District Officer, Elmer Anderson, Moynihan Report, National Sickle Cell Anemia Prevention Act, South India, North American, Upper Zambesi, Zambesi River New!
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- Races of Africa (Opus Books) by C.G. Seligman on page 78, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness by Megan Vaughan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 by John S. Haller Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology) by Nikolas Rose in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (American Economic Association) by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen on page 135, and Back Matter
- Epidemiology and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) by James A. Trostle in Back Matter
- A History of the Life Sciences, Revised and Expanded by Lois N. Magner on page 481
- How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology) by Nelly Oudshoorn in Back Matter
- Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology) by Charis Thompson in Back Matter
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