Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality - Couverture souple

Montoya, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520267311 ISBN 13 : 9780520267312

Editeur : University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race's importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity. In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diabetic underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Montoya is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520267311
• ISBN 13: 9780520267312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
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• Personne responsable: non disponible