Sander L. Gilman (ed.)

Race in Contemporary Medicine

Herausgeber: Gilman, Sander L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of articles addresses contemporary debates regarding race in medicine today, answering questions from a bio-medical and social perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415413657
• ISBN-10: 0415413656
• Artikelnr.: 37180392

Autorenporträt

Sander L. Gilman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On Race and Medicine in Historical Perspective. Reflections
on Race and the Biologization of Difference. Against Racial Medicine. Blood
and Stories: How Genomics is Rewriting Race, Medicine and Human History.
'Why are Genetic and Medical Researchers Accepting a Category Created by
Slaveholders?': A Social History of the Reification of 'Race'. Eugenics and
the Racial Genome: Politics at the Molecular Level. The Risky Gene:
Epidemiology and the Evolution of Race. Folk Taxonomy, Prejudice and the
Human Genome: Using Heritable Disease as a Jewish Ethnic Marker. The Price
of Science without Moral Constraints: German and American Medicine before
DNA and Today. Deadly Medicine Today: The Impossible Denials of Racial
Medicine. Biobanks of a 'Racial Kind': Mining for Difference in the New
Genetics