Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
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Michael Montoya BA ’89 presents an ethnographic study highlighting the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, a widespread chronic disease that affects ethnic groups disproportionately.
University of California Press, 2011. 282 pages. $21.
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