{"product_id":"dying-in-the-city-of-the-blues-sickel-cell-anemia-and-the-politics-of-race-and-health-paperback","title":"Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickel Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Wailoo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, \u003ci\u003eDying in the City of the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e 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 days of obscurity before sickle cell's \"discovery\" by Western medicine; through its rise to clinical, scientific, and social prominence in the 1950s; to its politicization in the 1970s and 1980s. Looking forward, he considers the consequences of managed care on the politics of disease in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rich and multilayered narrative, \u003ci\u003eDying in the City of the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e offers valuable new insight into the African American experience, the impact of race relations and ideologies on health care, and the politics of science, medicine, and disease. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of the award-winning \"Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America,\" Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lillian Smith Book Awards (2002)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239323955474,"sku":"9780807848968","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/elhGRVJGc0F1aERCYXJBSHJ5WExjZz09.webp?v=1777875894","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/dying-in-the-city-of-the-blues-sickel-cell-anemia-and-the-politics-of-race-and-health-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}