Abstract
Aborda os estudos médicos e científicos sobre a anemia falciforme publicados no Brasil nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. A miscigenação foi apontada, pela maioria dos médicos e cientistas, como interferência significativa na epidemiologia da doença no país. Destaca a atuação do hematologista do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Ernani Martins da Silva, que efetuou análises sanguíneas no interior no Brasil para determinar os grupos populacionais miscigenados e puros, baseado na identificação de hemácias falciformes e da distribuição racial dos grupos sanguíneos. Analisam-se as ambivalências existentes na associação entre a anemia falciforme e 'raça negra' durante os anos de 1930 e 1940 no Brasil.
Highlights
Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, Marcos Chor Maio. In this analysis of the relations between race and disease as reflected in Brazil’s earliest medical and scientific studies on sickle cell anemia, published in the 1930s and 1940s, our goal is to explore uncertainties regarding the associations drawn between sickle cell anemia and the notion of ‘black race’ from a historical perspective
Patients who are homozygous for other hemoglobins, like Hb CC and Hb DD, can present diseases that are milder than sickle cell anemia
The interpretation that more Africans displayed the sickle cell trait and that more U.S blacks had sickle cell anemia dovetailed perfectly with the widespread notion in the United States that black and white miscegenation led to physical degeneration, including the emergence of disease
Summary
Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s. Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.18, n.
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