Blood relations : transfusion and the making of human genetics /

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Author / Creator:	Bangham, Jenny, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Blood groups -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Blood groups -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Blood groups -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Human genetics -- History -- 20th century. Human genetics -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Blood -- Transfusion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Blood groups. Blood -- Transfusion. Human genetics. Human genetics -- Research. Europe. Great Britain. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12451179

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ISBN:	9780226740171 022674017X 9780226739977 9780226740034
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2020).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Bangham, Jenny. Blood relations. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020 9780226739977

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
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 Transfusionand Genetics: Blood in the New Human Biology
Conclusion: Blood and Promise
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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