Blood Diseases in the Backyard: Mexican "indígenas" as a Population of Cognition in the Mid-1960s (2017)
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.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Cavalcanti, Juliana Manzoni;
Maio, Marcos Chor;
(2011)
Entre negros e miscigenados: a anemia e o traço falciforme no Brasil nas décadas de 1930 e 1940
(/isis/citation/CBB001420521/)
Article
Giulio Rizzoni;
(2016)
La donazione di sangue nella città di Oxaca de Juárez (Messico). Un percorso di analisi a partire dall'antropologia medica
(/isis/citation/CBB038287180/)
Article
Suárez-Díaz, Edna;
(2014)
Indigenous Populations in Mexico: Medical Anthropology in the Work of Ruben Lisker in the 1960s
(/isis/citation/CBB001421070/)
Article
Bangham, Jenny;
(2014)
Blood Groups and Human Groups: Collecting and Calibrating Genetic Data after World War Two
(/isis/citation/CBB001421068/)
Article
Widmer, Alexandra;
(2014)
Making Blood “Melanesian”: Fieldwork and Isolating Techniques in Genetic Epidemiology (1963--1976)
(/isis/citation/CBB001421071/)
Book
Jenny Bangham;
(2020)
Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics
(/isis/citation/CBB189983505/)
Chapter
Molina, Natalia;
(2014)
Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001553451/)
Book
Mckiernan-González, John Raymond;
(2012)
Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848--1942
(/isis/citation/CBB001212560/)
Book
Sabrina Strings;
(2019)
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
(/isis/citation/CBB280233988/)
Book
Roberts, Samuel;
(2009)
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
(/isis/citation/CBB001031549/)
Book
Pollock, Anne;
(2012)
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
(/isis/citation/CBB001420205/)
Book
Cogdell, Christina;
(2004)
Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s
(/isis/citation/CBB000401087/)
Thesis
Khan, Shalini H. N.;
(2011)
Infectious Entanglements: Literary and Medical Representations of Disease in the Post/Colonial Caribbean
(/isis/citation/CBB001567303/)
Article
Alcalá Ferráez, Carlos;
(2012)
De miasmas a mosquitos: el pensamiento médico sobre la fiebre amarilla en Yucatán, 1890--1920
(/isis/citation/CBB001420572/)
Article
Stern, Alexandra Minna;
(2011)
“The Hour of Eugenics” in Veracruz, Mexico: Radical Politics, Public Health, and Latin America's only Sterilization Law
(/isis/citation/CBB001231771/)
Article
Teixeira, Luiz Antonio;
(2010)
O controle do câncer no Brasil na primeira metade do século XX
(/isis/citation/CBB001420480/)
Book
Tuchman, Arleen Marcia;
(2020)
Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
(/isis/citation/CBB285911296/)
Book
Brier, Jennifer;
(2009)
Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
(/isis/citation/CBB001200310/)
Article
Ortega Martos, Antonio Miguel;
(2010)
¿Colonialismo biomédico o autonomía de lo local? Sanadores tradicionales contra la tuberculosis
(/isis/citation/CBB001420476/)
Article
Garnelo, Luiza;
(2011)
Aspectos socioculturais de vacinação em área indígena
(/isis/citation/CBB001420515/)
Be the first to comment!