Medicating Race : Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference /

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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. She examines wid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pollock, Anne, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medizinische Versorgung
Medizinsoziologie
Herzkrankheit
Heart > Diseases.
Cardiology.
African Americans > Medical care.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
African Americans.
African American.
Éthique medicale.
Noirs americains.
Coeur > Maladies > États-Unis.
Cardiologie > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Sante et hygiene.
Noirs americains > Soins medicaux.
Healthcare Disparities
Ethics, Medical
Isosorbide Dinitrate > therapeutic use
Hydralazine > therapeutic use
African Americans
Cardiovascular Diseases > drug therapy
Cardiovascular Diseases > ethnology
Heart > Diseases > United States.
Cardiology > United States.
Afroamerikaner
United States.
United States
Historical Works.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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