Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference

by Anne Pollock, Louise Burnham, Brenda Baker

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235344X
• ISBN13: 9780822353447
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"