Tag: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

  • How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial: Werner Kalow and the Formations of Pharmacogenetics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 68, Number 1, January 2013 pages 1-48 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrr046 David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine Harvard University Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon:…

  • Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 60, Number 2, April 2005 pages 135-169 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Race correction is a common practice in contemporary pulmonary medicine that involves…

  • A Question of Blood, Race, and Politics Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Volume 61, Number 4 (2006) pages 456-491 DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrl003 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia This article explores the political and intellectual context of a controversy arising from a proposal made…