The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease
Concise and well-argued... essential reading for anyone interested in genetics, disease, and the meaning of race.(Science)Practitioners of the future will have to take these separate histories into account as this new era unfolds.(Doris Teichler Zallen, PhDJAMA)Fascinating.(Jackie Leach ScullySocial History of Medicine)Perfectly suited for use in teaching the history of medicine and health... At once concise, readable, and demanding in its parsimony. It should not be missed by anyone who cares about the emerging shape of health care in the age of genomic medicine.(Christopher CrennerJournal of the History of Medicine)The book deserves to be read by a large public—and in particular by those who are in charge of, or concerned with, decisions about health politics.(Michel MorangeIsis)No book brings together contemporary understandings of genetics as a social rather than a biological project as nicely asThe Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine. This book, accessible to both scholars and general readers, greatly contributes to our understanding of the ways in which concepts developed in genetic medicine influence people's definitions of ethnicity and race.(Kaja Finkler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicinebrings into focus intriguing concepts at the intersection of science and society... This book ought to encourage others to produce biosocial histories of this kind.(Abidemi Adegbola, M.D.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)The authors are two historians of health care policy and politics, and their well-researched account of the 'genetic revolution' reveals drama and intrigue rarely seen in descriptions of medical history.(PsycCRITIQUES)