Medical Stigmata - Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Kirk A Johnson
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	178
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-981-13-2991-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pharmacology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
LSN:	981-13-2991-5
Barcode:	9789811329913

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