The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine - Ethnicity And Innovation in Tay sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, And Sickle

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Stephen Pemberton is an associate professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is coauthor of The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung With Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease as a powerful backdrop, the authors provide a glimpse into a diverse America where racial ideologies, cultural politics, and conflicting beliefs about the power of genetics shape disparate health care expectations and experiences.

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• Authors: Stephen Pemberton, Stephen (Assistant Professor Pemberton, Keith Wailoo, Keith (Professor of History Wailoo, Keith/ Pemberton Wailoo
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780801883255
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8325-5
• No. of pages: 249
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Genetics, History of Medicine, Medical Genetics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct