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

Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN-10
0801870291
ISBN-13
9780801870293
Series
Drawing Blood
Category
Medical
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2002-10-15
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Keith Wailoo

Description

It can be, and has been, used to clarify and to cloud the understanding of disease, and it has the potential both to constrain and to emancipate its subjects."—Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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