The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine - Wailoo, Keith; Pemberton, Stephen
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With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors reveal how these maladies -- freighted with contentious ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans -- became topics of biological fascination and crucibles of social debate. They unveil a complex story: about different kinds of suffering and faith, about unequal access to the promises and perils of modern medicine, and about how Americans consume innovation and how they come to believe in, or resist, the notion of imminent medical breakthroughs.

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With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors reveal how these maladies -- freighted with contentious ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans -- became topics of biological fascination and crucibles of social debate. They unveil a complex story: about different kinds of suffering and faith, about unequal access to the promises and perils of modern medicine, and about how Americans consume innovation and how they come to believe in, or resist, the notion of imminent medical breakthroughs.
Autorenporträt
Keith Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, Pain: A Political History, and Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.