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Making the Mexican Diabetic : Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality / Michael Montoya.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montoya, Michael, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diabetes--Social aspects.
- Genetics--Research--Social aspects.
- Health and race--United States.
- Medical anthropology.
- Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Non-insulin-dependent diabetes--Mexico--Genetic aspects.
- Social medicine.
- Type 2 diabetes--Mexico--Genetic aspects.
- Type 2 diabetes.
- Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Mexican Americans.
- Genetics--Social aspects--Research.
- Genetics.
- Health and race--Social aspects.
- Health and race.
- Diabetes.
- Diabetes Mellitus--ethnology.
- Genetic Research.
- Indians, North American--ethnology.
- Risk Factors.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Mexico.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Diabetes Mellitus--ethnology.
- Genetic Research.
- Indians, North American--ethnology.
- Mexican Americans.
- Risk Factors.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Mexico.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Diabetes--Social aspects.
- Genetics--Research--Social aspects.
- Health and race--United States.
- Medical anthropology.
- Mexican Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Non-insulin-dependent diabetes--Mexico--Genetic aspects.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race's importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity. In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diabetic underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Situating Problems of Knowledge
- Chapter 1. Biological or Social: Allelic Variation and the Making of Race in Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-Based Research
- Chapter 2. Genes and Disease on the U.S.- Mexico Border: The Science of State Formation in Diabetes Research
- Chapter 3. Purity and Danger: When One Stands for Many
- Chapter 4. Collaboration and Power: Processing Cultures and Culturing Data
- Chapter 5. Recruiting Race: The Commodification of Mexicana/o Bodies from the U.S.- Mexico Border
- Chapter 6. Bioethnic Conscription
- Conclusion. Beyond Reductionism: Bioethnicity and the Genetics of Inequality
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613278067
- 9781283278065
- 1283278065
- 9780520949003
- 0520949005
- OCLC:
- 704258032
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