Keith Wailoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Wailoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Wailoo |
| SIGNATURE | WAILOO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics
The historiography of pandemics and inequality can be characterized by two distinct but often overlapping traditions. One centers structural and political analysis, the other a race-critical approach to the production of human difference. This bibliographic essay reviews historical scholarship in these traditions spanning the past hundred years, with a focus on Anglophone literature in the history of medicine in the United States over the past ha…
Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities
This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field. The essay traces how the original idea of “humanizing physicians” evolved and how crises from death and dying, to AIDS and COVID-19, expanded humanistic inquiry into health, illnes…
Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities
This essay explores how epidemics in the past and present give rise to distinctive, recurring racial scripts about bodies and identities, with sweeping racial effects beyond the Black experience. Using examples from cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and COVID-19, the essay provides a dramaturgical analysis of race and epidemics in four acts, moving from Act I, racial revelation; to Act II, the staging of bodies and places; to Act III, where…
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidenc…
Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities
This essay explores how epidemics in the past and present give rise to distinctive, recurring racial scripts about bodies and identities, with sweeping racial effects beyond the Black experience. Using examples from cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and COVID-19, the essay provides a dramaturgical analysis of race and epidemics in four acts, moving from Act I, racial revelation; to Act II, the staging of bodies and places; to Act III, where…
Three Shots at Prevention
Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
Dying in City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and Politics of Race and Health By Keith Wailoo (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) (338 pages; $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper). In Dying in City of Blues: Sickle Anemia and Politics of Race and Health, Keith Wailoo chronicles transformation of sickle cell anemia from an inchoate and clinically inconsequential malady into prominent disease symbolizing African-American social experienc…
Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis
Medicine, Culture, and Sickle Cell Disease
review of Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, by Keith Wailoo
Dying in the city of the blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and many other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its sufferers f…
Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America. By Keith Wailoo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 288 pp. $39.93, ISBN 0-8018-5474-1.) Get access Elizabeth W. Etheridge Elizabeth W. Etheridge Emerita Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 10…
The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
Journal Article The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. By Khaled J. Bloom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xii, 290 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-1824-9.) Get access Keith Wailoo Keith Wailoo University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1747–1748, https://do…
The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine
Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany, 1830-1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution Timothy Lenoir 2. Building institutes for physiology in Prussia, 1836-1846: contexts, interests and rhetoric Richard L. Kremer 3. The fall and rise of professional mystery: epistemology, authority and the emergence of laboratory medicine in nineteenth-century America John Harley Warner 4. Anaesthetics, ethics and aesthetics vivisection …
Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities
This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field. The essay traces how the original idea of “humanizing physicians” evolved and how crises from death and dying, to AIDS and COVID-19, expanded humanistic inquiry into health, illnes…
Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America. By Keith Wailoo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 288 pp. $39.93, ISBN 0-8018-5474-1.) Get access Elizabeth W. Etheridge Elizabeth W. Etheridge Emerita Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 10…
The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
Journal Article The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. By Khaled J. Bloom. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xii, 290 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8071-1824-9.) Get access Keith Wailoo Keith Wailoo University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1747–1748, https://do…
The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine
Laboratories, medicine and public life in Germany, 1830-1849: ideological roots of the institutional revolution Timothy Lenoir 2. Building institutes for physiology in Prussia, 1836-1846: contexts, interests and rhetoric Richard L. Kremer 3. The fall and rise of professional mystery: epistemology, authority and the emergence of laboratory medicine in nineteenth-century America John Harley Warner 4. Anaesthetics, ethics and aesthetics vivisection …
Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Journal Article Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America. By Keith Wailoo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xiv, 288 pp. $39.93, ISBN 0-8018-5474-1.) Get access Elizabeth W. Etheridge Elizabeth W. Etheridge Emerita Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 10…
Dying in the city of the blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentieth century, shaped by the politics of race, region, health care, and biomedicine. Using medical journals, patients' accounts, black newspapers, blues lyrics, and many other sources, Keith Wailoo follows the disease and its sufferers f…
Medicine, Culture, and Sickle Cell Disease
review of Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, by Keith Wailoo
Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
Dying in City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and Politics of Race and Health By Keith Wailoo (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) (338 pages; $34.95 cloth; $16.95 paper). In Dying in City of Blues: Sickle Anemia and Politics of Race and Health, Keith Wailoo chronicles transformation of sickle cell anemia from an inchoate and clinically inconsequential malady into prominent disease symbolizing African-American social experienc…
A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Three Shots at Prevention
Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History
Our genetic markers have come to be regarded as portals to the past. Analysis of these markers is increasingly used to tell the story of human migration; to investigate and judge issues of social membership and kinship; to rewrite history and collective memory; to right past wrongs and to arbitrate legal claims and human rights controversies; and to open new thinking about health and well-being. At the same time, in many societies genetic evidenc…
Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities
This essay explores how epidemics in the past and present give rise to distinctive, recurring racial scripts about bodies and identities, with sweeping racial effects beyond the Black experience. Using examples from cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and COVID-19, the essay provides a dramaturgical analysis of race and epidemics in four acts, moving from Act I, racial revelation; to Act II, the staging of bodies and places; to Act III, where…
Spectacles of Difference: The Racial Scripting of Epidemic Disparities
This essay explores how epidemics in the past and present give rise to distinctive, recurring racial scripts about bodies and identities, with sweeping racial effects beyond the Black experience. Using examples from cholera, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and COVID-19, the essay provides a dramaturgical analysis of race and epidemics in four acts, moving from Act I, racial revelation; to Act II, the staging of bodies and places; to Act III, where…
Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities
This essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, activists, writers, and literature scholars who participated in building the field. The essay traces how the original idea of “humanizing physicians” evolved and how crises from death and dying, to AIDS and COVID-19, expanded humanistic inquiry into health, illnes…
Epidemic Inequities: Social and Racial Inequality in the History of Pandemics
The historiography of pandemics and inequality can be characterized by two distinct but often overlapping traditions. One centers structural and political analysis, the other a race-critical approach to the production of human difference. This bibliographic essay reviews historical scholarship in these traditions spanning the past hundred years, with a focus on Anglophone literature in the history of medicine in the United States over the past ha…
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