Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 2643
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.7208/chicago/9780226740171.001.0001
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- ISBN
- 9780226739977
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on seven years' work at doctoral and postdoctoral levels, this book researchers and analyses the beginning of modern genetics as a science of individuality and communal identity. Its sources range from films and novels to government archives and interviews, as it ties the history of human genetics to blood donation, the establishment of nationwide health provision to racial politics. It argues that these meanings were enabled by the infrastructures of blood transfusion. With PhDs in both genetics and the history of science, the author develops an innovative and rich understanding of the practices and cultures of modern biology.
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- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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