Race in Contemporary Medicine
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Race in Contemporary Medicine book
Race in Contemporary Medicine
DOI link for Race in Contemporary Medicine
Race in Contemporary Medicine book
Edited BySander L. Gilman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2007
eBook Published 21 December 2007
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 206 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429237041
SubjectsHumanities, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health, Social Sciences
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Gilman, S. (Ed.). (2008). Race in Contemporary Medicine. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203822418
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|31 pages
Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history
ByPriscilla Wald
chapter 2|18 pages
Alcohol and the Jews (again), race and medicine (again): on race and medicine in historical perspective
BySander L. Gilman
chapter 4|18 pages
Folk taxonomy, prejudice and the human genome: using disease as a Jewish ethnic marker
ByJudith S. Neulander
chapter 5|14 pages
Eugenics and the racial genome: politics at the molecular level
BySharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell
chapter 7|15 pages
The molecular reinscription of race: unanticipated issues in biotechnology and forensic science
ByTroy Duster
chapter 8|18 pages
Biobanks of a ‘racial kind’: mining for difference in the new genetics
BySandra Soo-Jin Lee
