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Medical Stigmata Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation /
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 Amer...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore :
2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Full-text access |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | IX, 178 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789811329920 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-13-2992-0 |