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Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
LIBRA RA448.5.N4 P65 2012
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Van Pelt Library RA448.5.N4 P65 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollock, Anne, 1975-
- Series:
- Experimental futures
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Medical care.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Cardiology--United States.
- Cardiology.
- Heart--Diseases--United States.
- Heart.
- Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Heart--Diseases.
- United States.
- Cardiovascular Diseases--genetics.
- Ethnicity.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Minority Groups.
- Minority Health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cardiovascular Diseases.
- United States.
- Cardiovascular Diseases--genetics.
- Ethnicity.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Minority Groups.
- Minority Health.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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. She examines the long-standing and dynamic interplay of race and heart disease through analyses of the notion, among the founders of American cardiology that heart disease was a modern, and therefore white, illness; constructions of "normal" populations in epidemiological research, including the influential Framingham Heart Study; medical debates about the "slavery hypothesis" and thiazide diuretics, a class of antihypertensive drugs that has been linked to African American hypertension; and physician advocacy for the urgent needs of black patients on both scientific and social justice grounds. Ultimately, Pollock insists that those grappling with the meaning of racialized medical technologies must consider not only the troubled history of race and biomedicine but also its fraught present. Medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than an alternative to, political and social contestation. The aim of scholarly analysis should not be to settle matters of race and genetics, but to hold medicine more broadly accountable to truth and justice.
- Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices A Series Edited by Michael M.J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Racial preoccupations and early cardiology
- Making normal populations and making difference in the Framingham and Jackson heart studies
- The durability of African American hypertension as a disease category
- The slavery hypothesis beyond genetic determinism
- Thiazide diuretics at a nexus of associations : racialized, proven, old, cheap
- Bidil: medicating the intersection of race and heart failure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822353294
- 0822353296
- 9780822353447
- 082235344X
- OCLC:
- 768798942
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