EAN: 9789811348129

MEDICAL STIGMATA - KIRK A JOHNSON KARTONIERT (TB)

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease.
Race-based medicine  an emerging field in pharmacology  aims to create a specialty market based
on racial groups. Within this market  the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine
targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently  selecting African
Americans as a starter group led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based
medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This
book therefore links medicine and American eugenics  examines race-based medicine's influence
on the perception of the black body  traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence
of race-based medicine  and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using
black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

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