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Race in Contemporary Medicine

Editat de Sander L. Gilman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 dec 2007
With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” 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 should “race” play in the discussion of genetic alleles and populations today?    The new genetics has seemed to make “race” both a category that is seen useful if not necessary, as The New York Times noted recently: "Race-based prescribing makes sense only as a temporary measure." (Editorial, “Toward the First Racial Medicine,” November 13, 2004) Should one think about “race” as a transitional category that is of some use while we continue to explore the actual genetic makeup and relationships in populations? Or is such a transitional solution poisoning the actual research and practice.
Does “race” present both epidemiological and a historical problem for the society in which it is raised as well as for medical research and practice?  Who defines “race”? The self-defined group, the government, the research funder, the researcher? What does one do with what are deemed “race” specific diseases such as “Jewish genetic diseases” that are so defined because they are often concentrated in a group but are also found beyond the group?  Are we comfortable designating “Jews” or “African-Americans” as “races” given their genetic diversity?  The book answers these questions from a bio-medical and social perspective.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415413657
ISBN-10: 0415413656
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Adult education, General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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

Descriere

This collection of articles addresses contemporary debates regarding race in medicine today, answering questions from a bio-medical and social perspective.

Notă biografică

Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University as of 2005.   A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books.  For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies.  For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and for four years was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine and creator of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand.  He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995.  He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997 and elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin.