Race in Contemporary Medicine

Informationen zum Autor Sander L. Gilman Klappentext This collection of articles addresses contemporary debates regarding race in medicine today, answering questions from a bio-medical and social perspective. Zusammenfassung This collection of articles addresses contemporary debates regarding race in medicine today, answering questions from a bio-medical and social perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Sander L. Gilman, L. Gilma Sander
• Assisted by: Sander L. Gilman (Editor), Sander L. (Emory University Gilman (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415413657
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 253 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics