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Author Bangham, Jenny, author.

Title Blood relations : transfusion and the making of human genetics / Jenny Bangham
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020
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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 Transfusion and Genetics: Blood in the New Human Biology -- Conclusion: Blood and Promise -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2020)
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
SCIENCE -- General.
Blood groups
Blood -- Transfusion
Human genetics
Human genetics -- Research
Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226740171
022674017X