[PDF.20tj] The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease

The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease

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 | #1670874 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  2006-04-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.56 x5.00l,.58 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A good introduction to the topic|By E. Boylan|This book is an excellent, easy to understand introduction to its topic of the intersection of race and genetic medicine. I work in an area of clinical research adjacent to those discussed, and the various people and interests that drive this type of research were fairly and accurately represented as far as that representation went| ||"Concise and well-argued... essential reading for anyone interested in genetics, disease, and the meaning of race." (Science)

|"Practitioners of the future will have to take these separate histories into account as this new era unfolds." (Do

Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly identified with Jewish Americans; cystic fibrosis, often labeled a "Caucasian" disease; and sickle cell disease, widely associated ...

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