Race in Contemporary Medicine (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gilman, Sander L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With the first patent being granted toBiDil, a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specificrace, African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older category of race has been renewed. What role shouldrace play in the discussion of genetic alleles and population

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136764554
• Artikelnr.: 39949750

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