Medical Stigmata : Race, Medicine, and the Pursuit of Theological Liberation (Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)

This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease.

Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups.

Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group.

Consequently, selecting African Americans as a "starter group" led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history.

This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine's influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil's approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church's response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.