Blood Relations

Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics

AvJenny Bangham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226739977

Mer om författaren

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.

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"Bangham expertly traces the connections between the search for new and rare blood groups, the mapping of ostensibly race-neutral genetic differences in populations across the world, and the crucial role of bureaucratic networks with detailed information about donors and blood groups. She thus sheds new light on the twentieth-century history of genetics... [An] original and well-written study."

Innehållsförteckning

Prefatory NoteIntroduction: Blood, Paper, and Genetics1. Transfusion and Race in Interwar Europe2. Reforming Human Heredity in the 1930s3. Blood Groups at War4. The Rhesus Controversy5. Postwar Blood Grouping 1: The Blood Group Research Unit6. Valuable Bodies and Rare Blood7. Postwar Blood Grouping 2: Arthur Mourant’s National and International Networks8. Organizing and Mapping Global Blood Groups9. Blood Groups and the Reform of Race Science in the 1950s10. Decoupling Transfusion and Genetics: Blood in the New Human BiologyConclusion: Blood and PromiseAcknowledgmentsGlossarySourcesNotesBibliographyIndex