Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health / Keith Wail...
Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health / Keith Wail...
Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health / Keith Wailoo.
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Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.
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N362.19615/1
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English
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ix, 338 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, c2001.
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England
Date Published
c2001.
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"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues 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 ne...
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Dying in the city of the blues : sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health / Keith Wailoo.
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Studies in social medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2001.
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N362.19615/1
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74Vv8W5pX4Ld
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8W5pX4Ld
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0807848964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807848968(pbk.) :
0807848964(pbk.) :
9780807825846(cased) :
0807825840(cased) :
9780807825846 (alk. paper)
0807825840 (alk. paper)
9780807848968 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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362.196152700976819
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991014244599702626
