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Heart-sick the politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease

Title
Heart-sick [electronic resource] : the politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease / Janet K. Shim.
Author
Shim, Janet K., 1969-
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2014]

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1 online resource (xii, 277 pages)
Series Statement
Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Uniform Title
Heart-sick (Online)
Alternative Title
Heart-sick (Online)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.
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Contents
The politics of disease causation -- Disciplining difference: a selective contemporary history of cardiovascular epidemiology -- The contested meanings and intersections of race -- An apparent consensus on class -- The dichotomy of gender -- Individualizing "difference" and the production of scientific credibility.
LCCN
2013048345
OCLC
ssj0001112216
Author
Shim, Janet K., 1969-
Title
Heart-sick [electronic resource] : the politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease / Janet K. Shim.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series
Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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