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Medicating Race
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Anne Pollock
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:

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(cont.) Two final chapters attend to current racial invocations of two pharmaceuticals: thiazide and BiDil. Using methods from critical historiography of race,
Unequal Treatment
Language: en
Pages: 781
Authors: Institute of Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-06 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is,
Medicating Race
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Anne Pollock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-02 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from
Race in a Bottle
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Jonathan Kahn
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Approved by the FDA in 2005 as the first drug with a race-specific indication on its label, BiDil was touted as a pathbreaking therapy to treat heart failure in
Racial Prescriptions
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: Dr Jonathan Xavier Inda
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome r