Medicating Race

Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Georgia Tech.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11. Racial Preoccupations and Early Cardiology 282. Making Normal Populations and Making Difference in the Framingham and Jackson Heart Studies 523. The Durability of African American Hypertension as a Disease Category 834. The Slavery Hypothesis beyond Genetic Determinism 1075. Thiazide Diuretics at a Nexus of Associations: Racialized, Proven, Old, Cheap 1316. BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 155Conclusion 180Notes 197Works Cited 225Index 253

“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 & Illness) “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) “[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) “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)