Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 265 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Uniform title

1. Experimental futures.

Subject

1. African Americans > Medical care
2. African Americans > Health and hygiene
3. Cardiology > United States
4. Heart > Diseases > United States
5. Cardiovascular Diseases > drug therapy > United States
6. Cardiovascular Diseases > ethnology > United States
7. African Americans > United States
8. Ethics, Medical > United States
9. Healthcare Disparities > United States
10. Hydralazine > therapeutic use > United States
11. Isosorbide Dinitrate > therapeutic use > United States

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 13-267

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Pollock, Anne, 1975-

Title

1. Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.

Imprint

1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Series

1. Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
2. Experimental futures.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2011053305

ISBN

1. 9780822353294 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0822353296 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780822353447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 082235344X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 13-267