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Biomedical ambiguity : race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean / Ian Whitmarsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitmarsh, Ian, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asthma--Social aspects--Barbados.
- Asthma.
- Asthma--Barbados--Genetic aspects.
- Health and race--Barbados.
- Health and race.
- Black people--Health and hygiene--Barbados.
- Black people.
- Genetics--Research--Social aspects--Barbados.
- Genetics.
- Medical anthropology--Barbados.
- Medical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma.
- Contents:
- Introduction : vernaculars in race and disease science
- Contestations of race
- The nation as biomedical site
- Asthma variations
- (Re)categorizing asthma and the rational pharmaceutical
- Biomedical partnerships : making genetics significant
- Misgivings in medical participation
- Participant mothers
- Home visit translations
- Biomedical and anthropological excesses.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5993-1
- OCLC:
- 726824237
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