Layal Liverpool

Systemic

How Racism Is Making Us Sick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool, arguing that racism affects our biology"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Astra Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781662601675
• ISBN-10: 1662601670
• Artikelnr.: 68295335

Autorenporträt

Layal Liverpool is a science journalist with expertise in biomedical science, particularly virology and immunology. Her PhD research at Oxford focused on investigating how invading viruses are detected by the body’s immune system. Her writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Wired, and the Guardian. Currently, she is a journalist at Nature.

Rezensionen

Lucid and impressive . . . Systemic is a challenge to the way race has been posited as an explanatory full stop rather than an opening to rigorous scientific inquiry into the root causes of inequality. Liverpool pushes back against the lazy thinking that allows this. The result is a bracing, informative read that illuminates the grim social reality of racism and its effects