Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America

by Keith Wailoo

Book Overview

How physicians in this century wielded medical technology to define disease, carve out medical specialties, and shape political agendas.

Winner of the American Public Health Association Arthur Viseltear Prize

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801861810
• ISBN13: 9780801861819
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher