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Author:
Pollock, Anne, 1975-
Title:
Medicating race : heart disease and durable preoccupations with difference / Anne Pollock.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
ix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
African Americans--Medical care.
African Americans--Health and hygiene.
Cardiology--United States.
Heart--Diseases--United States.
Notes:
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.
Series:
Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices.
ISBN:
0822353296 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822353294 (cloth : alk. paper)
082235344X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822353447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)768798942
LCCN:
2011053305
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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