Race in a bottle : the story of BiDil and racialized medicine in a post-genomic age /

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Approved by the FDA in 2005 as the first drug with a race-specific indication on its label, BiDil was touted as a pathbreaking therapy to treat heart failure in black patients. Kahn reveals that, at the most basic level, BiDil became racial through legal maneuvering and commercial pressure as much a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kahn, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Hydralazine > Development > History.
Health and race.
African Americans > Medical care.
Pharmacogenetics > Social aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > Political aspects > United States.
African Americans.
Pharmacogenetics.
Hydralazine > therapeutic use
Isosorbide Dinitrate > therapeutic use
Heart Failure > drug therapy
Heart Failure > ethnology
Black or African American
Pharmacogenetics
Santé et race.
Noirs américains > Soins médicaux.
Pharmacogénétique > Aspect social.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Noirs américains.
Pharmacogénétique.
African American.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Heart.
MEDICAL > Cardiology.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
African Americans
African Americans > Medical care
Health and race
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Organizing race : paths toward the re-biologization of race in modern biomedical research, practice, and product development
  • The birth of BiDil : how a drug becomes "ethnic"
  • Statistical mischief and racial frames for drug development and marketing
  • Capitalizing (on) race in drug development
  • Race-ing patents/patenting race : an emerging political geography of intellectual property in biotechnology
  • Not fade away : the persistence of race and the politics of the "meantime" in pharmacogenomics
  • From disparity to difference : the politics of racial medicine.

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