Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation - Softcover

Johnson, Kirk A.

 
9789811348129: Medical Stigmata: Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 981134812X ISBN 13: 9789811348129
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This title links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil’s approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church’s response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

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About the Author

Dr. Kirk A. Johnson teaches at Seton Hall University and Berkeley College in New Jersey, US. He is a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and The New York Academy of Medicine. He serves as a member of the Atlantic Health Systems Bioethics Committee and was formerly Assistant Director of the Medical Humanities program at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, US.

From the Back Cover

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a “starter group” led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil’s approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church’s response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
981134812X
ISBN 13 
9789811348129
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
187

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