Race in Contemporary Medicine

by Sander L. Gilman (Editor)

Overview

With the first patent being granted toBiDil, a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specificrace, African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older category of race has been renewed. What role shouldrace play in the discussion of genetic alleles and population

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136764547
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	568 KB

About the Author

Sander L. Gilman

Table of Contents

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