Medical Stigmata Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation /

• Main Author: Johnson, Kirk A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medical anthropology.; Medical ethics.; Medicine-History.; Pharmacology.; Medical Anthropology.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; History of Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

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 Amer...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Race-Based Medicine
• Chapter 3 Maleficence toward the Minority Patient
• Chapter 4 Research, Race, and Profit
• Chapter 5 Black Theology and Reconciliation
• Chapter 6 Conclusion
• Bibliography.