Medical Stigmata by Kirk A. Johnson

Author:Kirk A. Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811329920
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Similarly, race-based medicine affects minority communities’ overall understandings of health through communicating false notions that external traits of minorities contribute to the cause of disease.

Race, understood to generalize a group of people who have similar physical and genetically coded traits, should therefore not be used to determine the development of drugs. There are many causes of disease like poor nutrition, lack of exercise, poor hygiene, heredity, and environmental factors. Race-based medicine accentuates a false fatalistic ideology that one’s personal health habits are not significant for disease prevention compared to one’s external racial traits.

NitroMed’s implications through the biomedicalization of risk factors and self-surveillance related to BiDil recreated the eugenic stratification of racial bodies as biologically different. Such markers impose sociobiological and sociocultural perceptions that rationalize, “‘different’ kinds of bodies and the ways in which individuals so marked think about themselves and their health.” 73 NitroMed’s racial construction of BiDil was to project a familiar urgent fatalism to African Americans that have heart failure. The premise was that you are black, you are different, so take this drug that was specifically made for “people like you.” Consequently, race and biomedicalization intersect with geneticization. Geneticization is a social process and genetic form of medicalization that centers genes as the core of interpreting meaning and genetic findings supersede historical sociological explanations. 74

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