Introduction: race and contemporary medicine

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Notes

¹‘Behind the mask: face transplant reveals mystery of identity’, Dallas Morning News, 8 December 2005, editorial page.

²Stephen Kiehl, ‘Her new face gives woman a “normal life” ’, Baltimore Sun, 7 February 2006, 1C.

⁴Quoted ‘Race and medicine: not a black and white question’, The Economist, 12 April 2006, 80. This view has recently been put in Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton, The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006).

³Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee, The DNA Mystique: The Gene as Cultural Icon (New York: W. H. Freeman & Co. 1995).

⁵See Sander L. Gilman, ‘Fat as disability: the case of the Jews’, Literature and Medicine, vol. 23, no. 1, 2004, 46–60; James H. Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (New York: Free Press 1993); and Paul A. Lombardo and Gregory M. Dorr, ‘Eugenics, medical education and the public health service: another perspective on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 80, 2006, 291–316.