Isbn: 9789811348129 - medical stigmata: race, medicine, and the pursuit of theological liberation (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: NEW.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Zustand: New. An effective synthesis of existing work while breaking new ground in the African American religious and secular response to race-based medicineConnects recent medical research to older ideas about racial superiority and inferio.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Medical Stigmata | Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation | Kirk A. Johnson | Taschenbuch | ix | Englisch | 2018 | Springer | EAN 9789811348129 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …