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Summary:

"Race is a social reality, not a biological one. Yet African Americans are poorly served by even advanced genetic medicine because it is built on European DNA. Constance Hilliard explores the benefits and drawbacks of racial heuristics in medicine and argues for nonessentializing methods of harnessing genomic science on behalf of people of color"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Our History: In the Shadow of Timbuktu
• The System: American Medicine's Incomplete Paradigm
• Our Health: Tracking Down Ancestral Clues
• The Algorithm: Applying Genetic Ancestry to Case Studies
• Ancestral Genomics: Embracing a Multi-Genomic Nation.

Author/Creator:

Hilliard, Constance B. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ancestral genomics: African American health in the age of precision medicine [by Hilliard, C.B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ancestral Genomics [by Hilliard, C.B.] (Cambridge : Harvard University Press,c2024 — ISBN 9780674268609)

Subjects:

African Americans — Medical care

African Americans — Health and hygiene

Comparative genomics

Genomics — United States

Social medicine — United States

African Americans

Genomics

Social medicine

United States

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RA448.5.B53 H55 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780674296787
0674296788

OCLC Numbers:

1425791961