Drawing Blood Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America |
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| Author:
| Wailoo, Keith |
| Series title: | The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6181-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1999 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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''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. ......
''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. ......