Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality

by Michael Montoya (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $39.45

  An ethnographic study that 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. It underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $112.16

  An ethnographic study that 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. It underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life.