Kirk A. Johnson

Medical Stigmata (eBook, PDF)

Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine's influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811329920
• Artikelnr.: 54312204

Autorenporträt

Dr. Kirk A. Johnson teaches at Seton Hall University and Berkeley College in New Jersey, US. He is a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and The New York Academy of Medicine. He serves as a member of the Atlantic Health Systems Bioethics Committee and was formerly Assistant Director of the Medical Humanities program at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Race-Based Medicine.- Chapter 3 Maleficence toward the Minority Patient.- Chapter 4 Research, Race, and Profit.- Chapter 5 Black Theology and Reconciliation.- Chapter 6 Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Rezensionen

"Medical Stigmata encourages readers to apply similar hermeneutics to clinical contexts, using scripture to challenge the determinist narratives that pervade medicine and its adjacent industries." (Audrey Farley, Marginalia, marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org, October 18, 2019)