Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health

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This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in america, tracing its transformation from an “invisible” malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural symbol of African American pain and suffering.

Set in Memphis, home of one of the vital nation’s first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, remedy, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. The usage of medical journals, patients’ accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and plenty of other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its victims 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. Taking a look forward, he considers the consequences of managed care at the politics of disease in the twenty-first century.

A wealthy and multilayered narrative, Dying in the City of the Blues offers valuable new insight into the African American experience, the have an effect on of race relations and ideologies on health care, and the politics of science, medicine, and disease.

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