Ancestral genomics : African American health in the age of precision medicine / Constance B. Hilliard.
2024
RA448
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Title
Ancestral genomics : African American health in the age of precision medicine / Constance B. Hilliard.
ISBN
0674296788
9780674296787 (electronic bk.)
9780674296770 (electronic bk.)
067429677X (electronic bk.)
9780674268609 (hardcover)
0674268601 (hardcover)
9780674296787 (electronic bk.)
9780674296770 (electronic bk.)
067429677X (electronic bk.)
9780674268609 (hardcover)
0674268601 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations
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RA448
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.108996073
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.