The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease |
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| Author:
| Wailoo, Keith
Pemberton, Stephen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8325-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $71.00 |
Book Description:
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Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly ......
Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three hereditary diseases: Tay-Sachs, commonly ......