Medicating Race

Informationen zum Autor Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Georgia Tech. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

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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.

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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