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Medical stigmata : race, medicine, and the pursuit of theological liberation
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This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial gro...
This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a "starter group" led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine's influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.
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- Creator
- Kirk A. Johnson
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- English
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- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
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- ix, 178 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789811348129, 9789811329937, 9811329915, 9789811329920, 9789811329913
- OCLC
- on1054371642
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178).
- Introduction -- Race-based medicine -- Maleficence toward the minority patient -- Research, race and profit -- Black theology and reconciliation -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Pharmaceutical ethics.
- Race -- Social aspects.
- Ethics, Pharmacy.
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- Racial Groups.
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