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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459031703321
• Autore: Montoya Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-283-27806-5; 9786613278067; 0-520-94900-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/46200896872073
• Soggetti: Diabetes -- Social aspects; Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects; Health and race -- United States; Medical anthropology; Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Mexico -- Genetic aspects; Social medicine; Type 2 diabetes - Mexico - Genetic aspects; Mexican Americans - Health and hygiene - United States; Genetics - Social aspects - Research; Health and race - Social aspects; Diabetes; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; American Native Continental Ancestry Group; Risk; Hispanic Americans; Culture; Causality; Genetics; Biomedical Research; Endocrine System Diseases; Population Characteristics; Sociology; Health Care; Social Sciences; Probability; Biology; Epidemiologic Factors; Continental Population Groups; Anthropology, Cultural; Diseases; Ethnic Groups; Research; Metabolic Diseases; Mexican Americans; Risk Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Diabetes Mellitus; Ethnology; Indians, North American; Genetic Research; Population Groups; Anthropology; Science; Biological Science Disciplines; Statistics as Topic; Public Health; Quality of Health Care; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Natural Science Disciplines; Persons; Epidemiologic Methods; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Geography; Environment and Public Health; Occupations; Investigative Techniques; Health & Biological Sciences; Public Health - General; Electronic books.; North America; Americas; Mexico; United States; Geographic Locations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Situating Problems of Knowledge -- Chapter 1. Biological ; or Social: Allelic Variation and the Making of Race in Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-Based Research -- Chapter 2. Genes and Disease on the U.S.- Mexico Border: The Science of State Formation in Diabetes Research -- Chapter 3. Purity and Danger: When One Stands for Many -- Chapter 4. Collaboration and Power: Processing Cultures and Culturing Data -- Chapter 5. Recruiting Race: The Commodification of Mexicana/o Bodies from the U.S.- Mexico Border -- Chapter 6. Bioethnic Conscription -- Conclusion. Beyond Reductionism: Bioethnicity and the Genetics of Inequality -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.