Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.(Book Review)

By Keith Wailoo. Studies in Social Medicine. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xii], 338. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4896-4; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2584-0.)

Examining the history of a rare blood disorder in one southern city hardly seems the best way to trace the "relationship between disease, African American identity, medicine, and American society" (p. 3) and "the general trajectory of American health care and medical research in the twentieth century" (p. 9). Nevertheless, Keith Wailoo achieves these lofty goals ...

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