Race in Contemporary Medicine

Herausgeber: Gilman, Sander L

• Broschiertes 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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415759588
• ISBN-10: 0415759587
• Artikelnr.: 39700865

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