PMID: 11619496Aug 1, 1997Paper

An 'anthropathology' of the 'American Negro': anthropology, genetics, and the new racial science, 1940-1952

Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
M Tapper

Abstract

This essay documents how, in the 1940s and early 1950s, one scientifically discredited racialist assumption, namely the notion that 'hybridity', embodied by the 'American Negro', and linked to degeneration and disease, was re-authorized, again by science, through the discursive fusion of anthropology, medicine and genetics in the context of a particular disease--sickle cell anaemia. More specifically, I am concerned with the construction of what came to be called an 'anthropathology' of the 'American Negro', the discourse networks that situated it, its conditions of possibility and its consequences.

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Sep 18, 2007·Bulletin of the History of Medicine·Roberta Bivins
Sep 20, 2006·International Journal of Health Services : Planning, Administration, Evaluation·Lundy Braun
Jan 22, 2015·História, ciências, saúde--Manguinhos·Elena Calvo-González

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