Author of the award-winning Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science.

"An eye-opening history of medical services for African Americans in Memphis. It ably melds the political and institutional history of the subject while focusing with discerning sensitivity on the role of race in the analysis and treatment of sickle cell anemia. By any measure an important book." - Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University"

Author of the award-winning Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science.

"An eye-opening history of medical services for African Americans in Memphis. It ably melds the political and institutional history of the subject while focusing with discerning sensitivity on the role of race in the analysis and treatment of sickle cell anemia. By any measure an important book." - Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University"

Author of the award-winning Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science.

"An eye-opening history of medical services for African Americans in Memphis. It ably melds the political and institutional history of the subject while focusing with discerning sensitivity on the role of race in the analysis and treatment of sickle cell anemia. By any measure an important book." - Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University"