The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease

by Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton

Book Overview

Winner of the History of Science category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American Publishers

Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the histories of three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883261
• ISBN13: 9780801883262
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher