Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics

Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality

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 raceâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-03-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-03-18
Format	Kindle eBook

Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality