Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
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Beteilige Person: Kahn, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press 2012
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At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, ?I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same." Yet despite this declaration of unity, biomedical research has focused increasingly on mapping that .1 percent of difference, particularly as it relates to race.This trend is exemplified by the drug BiDil. Approved by the FDA in 2005 as the first drug with a race-specific ind
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ISBN:9780231531276