"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." -- James H. Jones, "American Historical Review"
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 as a result produces not only clarity and precision
but also bias and outright error.
"Drawing Blood" reveals the ways in which physicians and
patients as well as the diseases themselves are simultaneously
shaping and being shaped by technology, medical
professionalization, and society at large. This thought-provoking
cultural history of disease, medicine, and technology offers an
important perspective for current discussions of HIV and AIDS,
genetic blood testing, prostate-specific antigen, and other
important issues in an age of technological medicine.
"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"
" "Drawing Blood" 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-Net Humanities & Social Sciences On
Line"
"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"
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