The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease / Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.

The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease / Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.

Annotation 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 historie...

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Main Author: Wailoo, Keith
Contributors: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Genetic disorders > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethnic groups > Diseases.
Tay-Sachs disease > Genetic aspects.
Cystic fibrosis > Genetic aspects.
Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects.
Sickle cell anemia.
Cystic fibrosis.
Health services accessibility.
Tay-Sachs disease.
Genetic Diseases, Inborn > ethnology
Genetic Diseases, Inborn > prevention & control
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Cystic Fibrosis
Health Services Accessibility
Tay-Sachs Disease
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethnic symbols in conflicted times
  • Eradicating a "Jewish gene": promises and pitfalls in the fight against Tay-Sachs disease
  • Risky business in white America: gene therapy and other ventures in the treatment of cystic fibrosis
  • A perilous lottery for the Black family: sickle cells, social justice, and the new therapeutic gamble
  • Dreams amid diversity.

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