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Making the Mexican diabetic

Montoya, Michael J

2011

Overview

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 race'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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: bodies / chicano studies / chronic diseases / chronic illness / data set sharing / diabetes / Diabetes -- Social aspects / Diabetes Mellitus / Diabetes Mellitus -- ethnology -- Mexico / Diabetes Mellitus -- ethnology -- United States / disease / dna sampling / emigration / ethnic groups / ethnic studies / ethnicity / ethnography / Ethnology / Genetic aspects / genetic information / Genetic Research / Genetic Research -- Mexico / Genetic Research -- United States / Genetics / Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects / genomes / genomic research / health / Health and hygiene / Health and race -- United States / health care / health policy / hispanic / immigration / Indians of North America / Indians, North American / Indians, North American -- ethnology -- Mexico / Indians, North American -- ethnology -- United States / latina / latino / latinx / MEDICAL / Health Policy / Medical anthropology / medical research / medicine / mexican american / Mexican Americans / Mexican Americans -- ethnology -- Mexico / Mexican Americans -- ethnology -- United States / Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene / Mexico / migration / minorities / Non-insulin-dependent diabetes / Non-insulin-dependent diabetes - Mexico - Genetic aspects / nonfiction / race / racial politics / Risk Factors / Risk Factors -- Mexico / Risk Factors -- United States / science / Social medicine / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social / Socioeconomic Factors / Socioeconomic Factors -- Mexico / Socioeconomic Factors -- United States / Sociology / type 2 diabetes / United States
• ISBN: 0520267311, 9780520267305, 0520949005, 0520267303, 9780520949003, 9780520267312