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Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613935182
- 9781283622738
- 1283622734
- 9780822395782
- 0822395789
- OCLC:
- 811616866
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