Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease

Name: Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
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ISBN: 9780801883262

ISBN-10: 0801883261

ISBN-13: 9780801883262

Edition: 2006

Authors: Keith Wailoo, Stephen Pemberton

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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 identified with Jewish Americans; cystic fibrosis, often labeled a "Caucasian" disease; and sickle cell disease, widely associated with African Americans. In this captivating account, historians Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton reveal how these diseases -- fraught with ethnic and racial meanings for many Americans -- became objects of biological…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Stephen Pemberton is an associate professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is coauthor of the Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease, also published by Johns Hopkins.