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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Kirk A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Bioethics.
Medicine > History.
Pharmacology.
Medical Anthropology.
History of Medicine.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Race-Based Medicine
  • Chapter 3 Maleficence toward the Minority Patient
  • Chapter 4 Research, Race, and Profit
  • Chapter 5 Black Theology and Reconciliation
  • Chapter 6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography.

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