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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Anne Pollock
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Paperback. Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference. Series: Experimental Futures. 280 pages, 5 illustrations. Proposes that medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than an alternative to, political and social contestation. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JHM; MBDC; MJD. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 17. Weight: 414.
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 wide-ranging aspects of the dynamic interplay of race and heart disease: articulations, among the founders of American cardiology, of heart disease as a modern, and therefore white, illness; constructions of "normal" populations in epidemiological research, including the influential Framingham Heart Study; debates about the distinctiveness African American hypertension, which turn on disparate yet intersecting ... Read more
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 wide-ranging aspects of the dynamic interplay of race and heart disease: articulations, among the founders of American cardiology, of heart disease as a modern, and therefore white, illness; constructions of "normal" populations in epidemiological research, including the influential Framingham Heart Study; debates about the distinctiveness African American hypertension, which turn on disparate yet intersecting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353447
SKU
V9780822353447
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About Anne Pollock
Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Georgia Tech.
Reviews for Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
“This book is masterfully performative and empirically rich, offering insight to scholars of race, feminist science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology.”
Alexandra A. Choby
Sociology of Health & Illness
“Both provocative and important for the study of race and/in medicine. . . . Pollock’s book serves well in highlighting the importance of considering the entirety ... Read more
Alexandra A. Choby
Sociology of Health & Illness
“Both provocative and important for the study of race and/in medicine. . . . Pollock’s book serves well in highlighting the importance of considering the entirety ... Read more