Making the Mexican Diabetic : Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality /
Montoya, Michael,author.
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race's importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity. In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diabetic underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.
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This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors to laboratories that are searching out genetic contributions to diabetes. His analysis lays bare the politics and ethics of the research process, addressing the implicit contradiction of undertaking genetic research that reinscribes race's importance even as it is being demonstrated to have little scientific validity. In placing DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, Making the Mexican Diabetic underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
Diabetes -- Social aspects.
Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects.
Health and race -- United States.
Medical anthropology.
Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene.
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Mexico --  Genetic aspects.
Social medicine.
Type 2 diabetes
Mexican Americans
Genetics
Health and race
Diabetes
Medical anthropology
Social medicine
Diabetes Mellitus
Genetic Research.
Indians, North American
Mexican Americans.
Risk Factors.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Public Health - General