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

Name: Dying in the City of the Blues Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
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ISBN: 9780807848968

ISBN-10: 0807848964

ISBN-13: 9780807848968

Edition: 2001

Authors: Keith Wailoo

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This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering. Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and many other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its sufferers from the early…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/26/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Pain and Suffering in Memphis



Conjurors of Health in the New South



Race Pathologies, Apparent and Unseen



Remaking Jim Crow Medicine



The Commodification of Black Health



Sickled Cells, Black Identity, and the Limits of Liberalism



Promising Therapy: Government Medicine on Beale Street



Pain and Policy at the Crossroads of Managed Care


Conclusion: Race against Disease


Notes


Primary Sources


Index