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by Richard Nollan (Author)
"L. W. Diggs was a pioneer in sickle cell disease research. He was there almost from the beginning when SCD was introduced to Western medicine in 1910, and Diggs's contributions to SCD knowledge and the insights into SCD history through his life story merit recognition."
--Todd L. Savitt, author of Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
Essentially a biography of Diggs, Blood Picture relates the life of a physician and intellectual with strong convictions and medically forward thinking. Diggs's career spanned the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement, and he pushed the limits of medicine and sicklecell research in times of turbulent social change. His life reveals the consciousness of the South as seen through the profession he admired and loved.
RICHARD H. NOLLAN is an associate professor and head of the Research and Learning Services at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He helped produce a digital retrospective on sickle cell anemia entitled Sickle Cell Disease: Photographs and Photomicrographs from 60 Years of Study.Author Biography
RICHARD H. NOLLAN is an associate professor and head of the Research and Learning Services at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He helped produce a digital retrospective on sickle cell anemia entitled Sickle Cell Disease: Photographs and Photomicrographs from 60 Years of Study.
