Medicating race [electronic resource] : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
Pollock, Anne, 1975-
2012
RA448.5.N4 P65 2012eb
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Title
Medicating race [electronic resource] : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
Author
Pollock, Anne, 1975-
ISBN
9780822395782 (electronic book)
0822395789 (electronic book)
9780822353294
0822353296
9780822353447 (pbk.)
082235344X (pbk.)
Publication Details
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 265 p. : ill.)
Call Number
RA448.5.N4 P65 2012eb
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Experimental futures.
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