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

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

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.