Blood Relations

Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

Jenny Bangham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2020
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-74003-4 (ISBN)

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Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human genetics. Focusing on mid-twentieth-century Britain, Blood Relations connects histories of eugenics to the local politics of giving blood, showing how the exchange of blood carved out networks that made human populations into objects of medical surveillance and scientific research. Bangham reveals how biology was transformed by two world wars, how scientists have worked to define racial categories, and how the practices and rhetoric of public health made genetics into a human science. Today, genetics is a powerful authority on human health and identity, and Blood Relations helps us understand how this authority was achieved.

Jenny Bangham is a Wellcome Trust University Award Lecturer in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. She has been an editor for Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Cancer, and the journal Development, and her work has been published in History of the Human Sciences and British Journal for the History of Science.

Prefatory Note
Introduction: Blood, Paper, and Genetics

1. Transfusion and Race in Interwar Europe

2. Reforming Human Heredity in the 1930s

3. Blood Groups at War

4. The Rhesus Controversy

5. Postwar Blood Grouping 1: The Blood Group Research Unit

6. Valuable Bodies and Rare Blood

7. Postwar Blood Grouping 2: Arthur Mourant’s National and International Networks

8. Organizing and Mapping Global Blood Groups

9. Blood Groups and the Reform of Race Science in the 1950s

10. Decoupling Transfusion and Genetics: Blood in the New Human Biology

Conclusion: Blood and Promise
Acknowledgments

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	32 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-10	0-226-74003-X / 022674003X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-74003-4 / 9780226740034
Zustand	Neuware