In "Drawing Blood", medical historian Keith Wailoo uses the story of blood diseases to explain how physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas. As Wailoo's account makes clear, the seemingly straightforward process of identifying disease is invariably influenced by personal, professional and social factors - and the result is not only clarity and precision but also bias and outright error. The long-diagnozed condition of chlorosis in ...
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In "Drawing Blood", medical historian Keith Wailoo uses the story of blood diseases to explain how physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas. As Wailoo's account makes clear, the seemingly straightforward process of identifying disease is invariably influenced by personal, professional and social factors - and the result is not only clarity and precision but also bias and outright error. The long-diagnozed condition of chlorosis in adolescent girls, for example, disappeared as women began assuming new roles in American society and challenging the notion of the "delicate female". The clinical status of some conditions reflected the fate of the experts who had defined and treated them - "splenic anaemia" vanished quickly when "abdominal surgeons" lost autonomy in matters of diagnosis as the hospital itself changed. Even current understandings of diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, pernicious anaemia, leukaemia and prostate cancer, Wailoo argues, have been shaped by medical technology's interaction with issues of race, identity, politics and economics.
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Like New. Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
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