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Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference

Title
Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
Author
Pollock, Anne, 1975-
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

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Description
265 pages : illustrations.
Series Statement
Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Uniform Title
Experimental futures.
Subject
  • African Americans > Medical care
  • African Americans > Health and hygiene
  • Cardiology > United States
  • Heart > Diseases > United States
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Diseases > genetics
  • Ethnicity
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Minority Groups
  • Minority Health
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780822353294 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822353296 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822353447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 082235344X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011053305
OCLC
  • ocn768798942
  • 768798942
  • SCSB-5659788
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries