Race in contemporary medicine / edited by Sander L. Gilman.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

xi, 193 pages ; 24 cm

"This book was previously published as a special issue of Patterns of prejudice"--P. ii.

Introduction: race and contemporary medicine / Sander L. Gilman -- Blood and stories : how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history / Priscilla Wald -- Alcohol and the Jews (again), race and medicine (again) : on race and medicine in historical perspective / Sander L. Gilman -- Reflections on race and the biologization of difference / Katya Gibel Azoulay -- Folk taxonomy, prejudice and the human genome : using disease as a Jewish ethnic marker / Judith S. Neulander -- Eugenics and the racial genome: politics at the molecular level / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell -- The risky gene : epidemiology and the evolution of race / Philip Alcabes -- The molecular reinscription of race : unanticipated issues in biotechnology and forensic science / Troy Duster -- Biobanks of a "radical kind" : mining for difference in the new genetics / Sandra Soo-Jin Lee -- The rhetoric of race in breast cancer research / Kelly E. Happe -- Against radical medicine / Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Michael R. Rose.

Includes bibliographical references and index.