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Interrogating Bodies: Medico-Racial Knowledge, Politics, and the Study of a Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Melbourne Tapper
Melbourne Tapper
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University of Texas at Austin
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Many of the blood dyscrasias show more or less distinct inheritability and the familial character offers no new problem. But the racial specificity [of sickle cell anemia] is unique. If found to hold true, this would indicate that the primary basis for the disease must be laid in conditions far removed from any possible accident of the environment…. [W]e must assume that "the disease depends primarily on some fundamental racial peculiarity of the blood forming tissues.

—G. S. Graham (1924)

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Science and Health
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 76 - 93
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1995

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