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. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Montoya, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
Temas:
Diabetes > Social aspects.
Genetics > Research > Social aspects.
Health and race > United States.
Medical anthropology.
Mexican Americans > Health and hygiene.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes > Mexico > Genetic aspects.
Social medicine.
Type 2 diabetes > Mexico > Genetic aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
bodies.
chicano studies.
chronic diseases.
chronic illness.
data set sharing.
diabetes.
disease.
dna sampling.
emigration.
ethnic groups.
ethnic studies.
ethnicity.
ethnography.
genetic information.
genetic research.
genetics.
genomes.
genomic research.
health care.
health policy.
health.
hispanic.
immigration.
latina.
latino.
latinx.
medical research.
medicine.
mexican american.
migration.
minorities.
nonfiction.
race.
racial politics.
science.
sociology.
type 2 diabetes.
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