Article ID: CBB236322309

Blood Diseases in the Backyard: Mexican "indígenas" as a Population of Cognition in the Mid-1960s (2017)

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This paper aims to widen the history of blood disease research beyond sickle cell anemia, situating it at the intersection of US racial politics and public health, and international malaria eradication campaigns in the Third World. It focuses on studies of G6PD deficiencies in the Mixtecos of the Mexican Pacific coast, and the Lacandones of the Mayan region in Chiapas. Two medical geneticists, Rubén Lisker and James E. Bowman, developed research projects that engaged these populations, looking for answers to evolutionary, biomedical, and genetics questions. Their practices and the context of knowledge production about these indigenous groups—how they were made objects of inquiry and intervention (Populations of Cognition)—are in full view in both cases.

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Authors & Contributors
Bangham, Jenny
Strings, Sabrina
Rizzoni, Giulio
Khan, Shalini H. N.
Widmer, Alexandra
Villella, Peter B.
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and race
Disease and diseases
Science and race
Blood
Human genetics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Mexico
United States
Great Britain
Brazil
Argentina
Latin America
Institutions
American College of Cardiology
United States. Food and Drug Administration
World Health Organization (WHO)
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