Medical stigmata : race, medicine, and the pursuit of theological liberation / Kirk A. Johnson.

  • Johnson, Kirk A.
Date:
2019
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Physical description

ix, 178 pages ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178).

Contents

Introduction -- Race-based medicine -- Maleficence toward the minority patient -- Research, race and profit -- Black theology and reconciliation -- Conclusion.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBZ.6
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ISBN

  • 9811329915
  • 9789811329913