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Biomedical ambiguity : race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean
- Title
- Biomedical ambiguity : race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean / Ian Whitmarsh.
- Author
- Whitmarsh, Ian, 1975-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 225 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : vernaculars in race and disease science -- Contestations of race -- The nation as biomedical site -- Asthma variations -- (Re)categorizing asthma and the rational pharmaceutical -- Biomedical partnerships : making genetics significant -- Misgivings in medical participation -- Participant mothers -- Home visit translations -- Biomedical and anthropological excesses.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-1000
- ISBN
- 9780801446863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801446864 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801474415 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801474418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007051002
- OCLC
- 181602167
- Author
- Whitmarsh, Ian, 1975-
- Title
- Biomedical ambiguity : race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean / Ian Whitmarsh.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-1000