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Author: Keith Wailoo (Professor of History, Princeton University) ,
Stephen Pemberton (Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780801883255
ISBN 10: 0801883253
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 24 July 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
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, PhD JAMA Fascinating. -- Jackie Leach Scully Social 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 Crenner Journal 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 Morange Isis The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine brings 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
No book brings together contemporary understandings of genetics as a social rather than a biological project as nicely as The 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
Author Information
Author Website: http://history.njit.edu/people/pemberton.php
Keith Wailoo is a professor in the Department of History and the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. He is the author of Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) and Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). Stephen Pemberton is an assistant professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University.
