Medicating race
Subtitle: heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference
By: Anne Pollock
Series: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices; Experimental futures
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822353294; 9780822353447
Subjects: Heart; Health and hygiene; Diseases; Cardiology; Medical care; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial preoccupations and early cardiology; title: Making normal populations and making difference in the Framingham and Jackson heart studies; title: The durability of African American hypertension as a disease category; title: The slavery hypothesis beyond genetic determinism; title: Thiazide diuretics at a nexus of associations : racialized, proven, old, cheap; title: Bidil: medicating the intersection of race and heart failure.