In the twentieth century, doctors have learned to think and act through their technologies.
An edition of Drawing Blood
(1997)
Drawing blood
technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America
by Keith Wailoo
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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 make 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.
Drawing Blood reveals 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 thought-provoking cultural history of disease, medicine, and technology offers a perspective that is invaluable in understanding current 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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Anemia, Biomedical Technology Assessment, History, Medical Sociology, Medical technology, Social aspects, Social aspects of Anemia, Sociology, Medical, Technology Assessment, Biomedical, Technology, Medical, Blood, collection and preservation, Diseases, causes and theories of causation, Social medicine, Medicine, united states, Pathology, Medical Laboratory SciencePlaces
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Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)
February 12, 1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0801861810 9780801861819
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Drawing blood: technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America
1997, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
0801854741 9780801854743
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