Description: Further DetailsTitle: Ancestral GenomicsCondition: NewSubtitle: African American Health in the Age of Precision MedicineISBN-10: 0674268601EAN: 9780674268609ISBN: 9780674268609Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/16/2024Description: A leading evolutionary historian offers a radical solution to racial health disparities in the United States.Constance B. Hilliard was living in Japan when she began experiencing joint pain. Her doctor diagnosed osteoarthritis—a common ailment for someone her age. But her bloodwork showed something else: Hilliard, who had never had kidney problems, appeared to be suffering from renal failure. When she returned to Texas, however, a new round of tests showed that her kidneys were healthy. Unlike the Japanese doctor, her American primary care provider had checked a box on her lab report for “African American.” As a scholar of scientific racism, Hilliard was perplexed. Why should race, which experts agree has no biological basis, matter for getting accurate test results?Ancestral Genomics is the result of Hilliard’s decade-long quest to solve this puzzle. In a masterful synthesis of evolutionary history, population genetics, and public health research, she addresses the usefulness of race as a heuristic in genomic medicine. Built from European genetic data, the Human Genome Project and other databases have proven inadequate for identifying disease-causing gene variants in patients of African descent. Such databases, Hilliard argues, overlook crucial information about the environments to which their ancestors’ bodies adapted prior to the transatlantic slave trade. Hilliard shows how, by analyzing “ecological niche populations,” a classification model that combines family and ecological histories with genetic information, our increasingly advanced genomic technologies, including personalized medicine, can serve African Americans and other people of color, while avoiding racial essentialism.Forcefully argued and morally urgent, Ancestral Genomics is a clarion call for the US medical community to embrace our multigenomic society.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Constance B. HilliardGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, MedicineRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Ancestral Genomics
Title: Ancestral Genomics
Subtitle: African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
ISBN-10: 0674268601
EAN: 9780674268609
ISBN: 9780674268609
Release Date: 04/16/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Ancestral Genomics : African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Public Health, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Genetics, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Constance B. Hilliard
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, Medical
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover