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- ISBN
- 9780801474415
- EAN
- 9780801474415
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Biomedical Ambiguity : Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have been diagnosed with asthma in recent years, attracting the attention of biomedical researchers, including those searching for a genetic link to the disease. The high rate of asthma among African American children has made race significant to this search for genetic predisposition. One of the primary sites for this research today is Barbados. The Caribbean nation is considered optimal because of its predominantly black population. At the same time, the government of Barbados has promoted the country for such research in an attempt to take part in the biomedical future. In Biomedical Ambiguity, Ian Whitmarsh describes how he followed a team of genetic researchers to Barbados, where he did fieldwork among not only the researchers but also government officials, medical professionals, and the families being tested. Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma. He points to state and industry perceptions of mothers as medical caretakers in genetic research that proves to be inextricable from contested practices around nation, race, and family. The reader's attention is drawn to the ambiguity in these practices, as researchers turn the plurality of ethnic identities and illness meanings into a science of asthma and race at the same time that medical practitioners and families make the opaque science significant to patient experience. Whitmarsh shows that the contradictions introduced by this "misunderstanding" paradoxically enable the research to move forward.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801474418
ISBN-13
9780801474415
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63899170
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Biomedical Ambiguity : Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ra645.A83w45 2008
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
"In Biomedical Ambiguity, Ian Whitmarsh makes an original and important contribution to the ongoing debate about the genetics of complex diseases and their 'racial' or 'hereditary' susceptibilities. His ethnographic insight into the process by which race, genes, and environmental factors are negotiated in small nations at the behest of large corporations and scientific research teams is important to understanding how such ideas, practices, and drugs are being marketed worldwide."-Rayna Rapp, New York University, Whitmarsh's investigation compels a rethinking of the biomedical stabilization of race and of enigmatic illnesses like asthma. His insight into the process by which race, genes, and environmental factors are negotiated in the Caribbean at the request of large corporations and scientific research teams is important. It will help the reader understand how such ideas, practices, and drugs are being marketed worldwide., "Whitmarsh's investigation compels a rethinking of the biomedical stabilization of race and of enigmatic illnesses like asthma. His insight into the process by which race, genes, and environmental factors are negotiated in the Caribbean at the request of large corporations and scientific research teams is important. It will help the reader understand how such ideas, practices, and drugs are being marketed worldwide."--Malcolm N. Blumenthal, MD, New England Journal of Medicine, April 23, 2009, "In Biomedical Ambiguity, Ian Whitmarsh makes an original and important contribution to the ongoing debate about the genetics of complex diseases and their 'racial' or 'hereditary' susceptibilities. His ethnographic insight into the process by which race, genes, and environmental factors are negotiated in small nations at the behest of large corporations and scientific research teams is important to understanding how such ideas, practices, and drugs are being marketed worldwide."--Rayna Rapp, New York University
Copyright Date
2011
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / Physical
Lccn
2007-051002
Dewey Decimal
362.196/23800972981
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Medical, Social Science
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