Inclusion : The Politics of Difference in Medical Research /

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With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists oft...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epstein, Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Colección:Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
inclusion, difference, race, gender, medical research, medicine, healthcare, diversity, advocacy groups, clinical trials, public health, bias, human experimentation, compliance, recruitment, sex differences, women, black, african american, underserved communities, biology, social justice, inequality, inequity, nonfiction, science, politics, reform, progress.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Health Research and the Remaking of Common Sense
  • 1. How to Study a Biopolitical Paradigm
  • 2. Histories of the Human Subject
  • 3. The Rise of Resistance: Framing the Critique of the Standard Human
  • 4. The Path to Reform: Aligning Categories, Targeting the State
  • 5. Opposition to Reform: Controversy, Closure, and Boundary Work
  • 6. Formalizing the New Regime
  • 7. From the Standard Human to Niche Standardization
  • 8. Counts and Consequences: Monitoring Compliance
  • 9. The Science of Recruitmentology and the Politics of Trust
  • 10. To Profile or Not to Profile: What Difference Does Race Make?
  • 11. Sex Differences and the New Politics of Women's Health
  • 12. Whither the Paradigm?
  • Conclusion: Identity, Difference, Disparities, and Biopolitical Citizenship
  • Chronology
  • Interviews
  • Notes
  • Index

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