Making the Mexican Diabetic Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality

Name: Making the Mexican Diabetic Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
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ISBN: 9780520267312

ISBN-10: 0520267311

ISBN-13: 9780520267312

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Montoya

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Michael J. Montoyais Associate Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine.



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Situating Problems of Knowledge



Biological or Social: Allelic Variation and the Making of Race in Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-Based Research



Genes and Disease on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Science of State Formation in Diabetes Research



Purity and Danger: When One Stands for Many



Collaboration and Power: Processing Cultures and Culturing Data



Recruiting Race: The Commodification of Mexicana/o Bodies from the U.S.-Mexico Border



Bioethnic Conscription


Conclusion Beyond Reductionism: Bioethnicity and the Genetics of Inequality


Epilogue


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index