{"product_id":"medicating-race-9780822353447","title":"Medicating Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMedicating Race\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Both provocative and important for the study of race and\/in medicine. . . . Pollock’s book serves well in highlighting the importance of considering the entirety of the social world (including the biomedical) with the same political and moral concerns borne by more traditional social theory.” -- Colin Halverson * Somatosphere *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMedicating Race\u003c\/i\u003e charts a new course in critical race studies in biomedicine, one that takes seriously the vital importance of healing, the 'durable preoccupation' with race, and the somatic toll of racism. Anne Pollock asks us to revisit some of our most cherished assumptions about race and biomedicine in this theoretically informed and usefully provocative exploration of the social meanings of heart disease.\"—\u003cb\u003eAlondra Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBody and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is masterfully performative and empirically rich, offering insight to scholars of race, feminist science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology.” -- Alexandra A. Choby * Sociology of Health \u0026amp; Illness *\u003cbr\u003e\"Based on exceptionally thorough scholarship and full of thought-provoking ideas, \u003ci\u003eMedicating Race\u003c\/i\u003e addresses one of the most perplexing and contentious topics in biomedical research and medical practice during the past century: race and its implications for health, disease, and treatment. Anne Pollock is trained in science and technology studies and is sensitive to the complexities of knowledge, politics, markets, and social categories. In this original study, she reveals how the modern history of heart disease is intertwined not only with the emergence and growth of the field of cardiology but also with civil rights struggles, pharmaceutical drug development and marketing, and changing notions of the biological and social meanings of race.\"—\u003cb\u003eSteven Epstein\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eInclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Pollock] offers a richer contextualization of the way race figures in medicine that positions medical science not as an exclusive or absolute authority, but one among many forms of ordering and reasoning about the simultaneously social and technical world we inhabit. ..  Pollock above all makes clear how different forms of knowledge, belief and reasoning are woven through the forms of collective organization and stratification sociology seeks to understand.” -- Erik Aarden * Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“Pollock provides insights for scholars interested in the mechanisms by which ‘race’structures medical practice, scientific knowledge development and pharmaceutical capital in the USA. She develops a compelling historical account of the varied meanings and significance of ‘race’ in the longer development of medical knowledge and practices constitutive of heart disease and, by extension, the wider field of American medicine.” -- James T. Roanea * Global Public Health *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Racial Preoccupations and Early Cardiology 28\u003cbr\u003e 2. Making Normal Populations and Making Difference in the Framingham and Jackson Heart Studies 52\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Durability of African American Hypertension as a Disease Category 83\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Slavery Hypothesis beyond Genetic Determinism 107\u003cbr\u003e 5. Thiazide Diuretics at a Nexus of Associations: Racialized, Proven, Old, Cheap 131\u003cbr\u003e 6. BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 155\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 180\u003cbr\u003e Notes 197\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 225\u003cbr\u003e Index 253","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406072947031,"sku":"9780822353447","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353447.jpg?v=1730494434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medicating-race-9780822353447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}