Race in Contemporary Medicine (Paperback)

Introduction: On Race and Medicine in Historical Perspective. Sander L. Gilman (Emory) Reflections on Race and the Biologization of Difference, Katya Gibel Azoulay (Grinnell) Against Racial Medicine. Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (North Carolina A&T State University) & Michael R. Rose (University of California, Irvine) Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Rewriting Race, Medicine and Human History. Patricia Wald (Duke) “Why are Genetic and Medical Researchers Accepting a Category Created by Slaveholders?” A Social History of the Reification of “Race” James Downs (Princeton) Eugenics and the Racial Genome: Politics at the Molecular Level. Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell (University of Illinois ? Chicago) The Risky Gene: Epidemiology and the Evolution of Race. Philip Alcabes (Hunter College School of Health Sciences) Folk Taxonomy, Prejudice and the Human Genome: Using Heritable Disease as a Jewish Ethnic Marker. Judith S. Neulander (Case Western Reserve University) The price of science without moral constraints: German and American medicine before DNA and Today. Robert E. Pollack (Columbia) Deadly Medicine Today: The Impossible Denials of Racial Medicine. C. Richard King (Washington State University) Biobanks of a “Racial Kind”: Mining for Difference in the New Genetics. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Stanford)