Ebook: Making the Mexican diabetic: race, science, and the genetics of inequality
Author: Montoya Michael J
- Tags: Américain origine mexicaine--Santé et hygiène--Amérique du Nord, Anthropologie pathologique--Amérique du Nord, Bioethik, Biomedizin, Diabète--Aspect social--Amérique du Nord, Diabetes Mellitus--ethnology, Diabetes--Social aspects, Discrimination dans les soins médicaux--Amérique du Nord, Ethnizität, Ethnomedizin, Genetic Research, Genetics--Research--Social aspects, Génétique des populations humaines--Aspect social--Amérique du Nord, Genomik, Gesundheitspolitik, Health and race--United States, Indians North Am
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkley;Mexico;Mexiko;United States;USA
- Language: English
- epub
This 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. The author 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. This book underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.;Biological or social : allelic variation and the making of race in single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) based research -- Genes and disease on the US/Mexico border : the science of state formation in diabetes research -- Purity and danger : when one stands for many -- Collaboration and power -- Recruiting race : commodification of Mexicana/o bodies from the US/Mexico border -- Bioethnic conscriptions.
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