Biomedical Ambiguity – Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Autor Ian Whitmarshen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2008
In Biomedical Ambiguity, Ian Whitmarsh describes how he followed a team of genetic researchers to Barbados, where he did fieldwork among not only the researchers but also government officials, medical professionals, and the families being tested. Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma. He points to state and industry perceptions of mothers as medical caretakers in genetic research that proves to be inextricable from contested practices around nation, race, and family.
The reader's attention is drawn to the ambiguity in these practices, as researchers turn the plurality of ethnic identities and illness meanings into a science of asthma and race at the same time that medical practitioners and families make the opaque science significant to patient experience. Whitmarsh shows that the contradictions introduced by this "misunderstanding" paradoxically enable the research to move forward.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780801474415
ISBN-10: 0801474418
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
ISBN-10: 0801474418
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press
Descriere
Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma.