Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation

by Kirk A Johnson and Kirk A. Johnson

Book Overview

This title 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981134812X
• ISBN13: 9789811348129
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"