TY - BOOK ID - 137624542 TI - Making the Mexican Diabetic : Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality PY - 2011 SN - 1283278065 9786613278067 0520949005 9780520949003 9781283278065 9780520267305 0520267303 9780520267312 0520267311 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Diabetes -- Social aspects. KW - Genetics -- Research -- Social aspects. KW - Health and race -- United States. KW - Medical anthropology. KW - Mexican Americans -- Health and hygiene. KW - Non-insulin-dependent diabetes -- Mexico -- Genetic aspects. KW - Social medicine. KW - Type 2 diabetes KW - Mexican Americans KW - Genetics KW - Health and race KW - Diabetes KW - Medical anthropology KW - Social medicine KW - Diabetes Mellitus KW - Genetic Research. KW - Indians, North American KW - Mexican Americans. KW - Risk Factors. KW - Socioeconomic Factors. KW - Genetic aspects KW - Health and hygiene KW - Social aspects KW - Research KW - ethnology. KW - Mexico. KW - United States. KW - bodies. KW - chicano studies. KW - chronic diseases. KW - chronic illness. KW - data set sharing. KW - diabetes. KW - disease. KW - dna sampling. KW - emigration. KW - ethnic groups. KW - ethnic studies. KW - ethnicity. KW - ethnography. KW - genetic information. KW - genetic research. KW - genetics. KW - genomes. KW - genomic research. KW - health care. KW - health policy. KW - health. KW - hispanic. KW - immigration. KW - latina. KW - latino. KW - latinx. KW - medical research. KW - medicine. KW - mexican american. KW - migration. KW - minorities. KW - nonfiction. KW - race. KW - racial politics. KW - science. KW - sociology. KW - type 2 diabetes. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137624542 AB - 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. ER -