Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

by Steven Epstein

Book Overview

With "Inclusion," Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226213099
• ISBN13: 9780226213095
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"