Pollock Medicating Race

Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9578-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pollock, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Kardiologie, Angiologie, Phlebologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Georgia Tech.