A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry,
Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race. James Doucet-Battle offers an important critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research.
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Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry,