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

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

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 raceâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Michael Montoya
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520949003
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	283
PublicationDate	2011-03-18
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
Studio	University of California Press

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