Anne Pollock

Medicating Race

Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference

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Produktbeschreibung

Proposes that medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than an alternative to, political and social contestation

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In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353294
• ISBN-10: 0822353296
• Artikelnr.: 34748505

Autorenporträt

Anne Pollock

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Racial Preoccupations and Early Cardiology 28
2. Making Normal Populations and Making Difference in the Framingham and
Jackson Heart Studies 52
3. The Durability of African American Hypertension as a Disease Category 83
4. The Slavery Hypothesis beyond Genetic Determinism 107
5. Thiazide Diuretics at a Nexus of Associations: Racialized, Proven, Old,
Cheap 131
6. BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 155
Conclusion 180
Notes 197
Works Cited 225
Index 253