Description: Medical Stigmata Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation Author(s): Kirk A. Johnson Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore ISBN-13: 9789811329913, 978-9811329913 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Medical Stigmata
Number of Pages: 178 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Medicine, Anthropology, Biology
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Weight: 381 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Kirk A. Johnson
Item Width: 148 mm
Format: Hardcover
