Author: Michæl Montoya
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520267311
Category: Medical
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520267311
Category: Medical
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
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. Download Making the Mexican Diabetic medical books for free.
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 Diab Get Making the Mexican Diabetic our bestseller medical books.
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In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diab
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