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Racial Prescriptions : Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781409444992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racial PrescriptionsDDC classification:
  • 362.108
LOC classification:
  • RA563.M56 -- .I53 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Racial Politics of Life -- 2 The Making of BiDil -- 3 Biosocial Citizenship -- 4 Enlightened Geneticization of Race -- 5 Racial Vital Value -- 6 Neoliberalization of Life -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Racial Prescriptions explores the politics of dealing with health inequities through targeting pharmaceuticals at specific racial groups based on the idea that they are genetically different. Drawing on the introduction of BiDil to treat heart failure among African Americans, this book contends that while racialized pharmaceuticals are ostensibly about fostering life, they also raise thorny questions concerning the biologization of race, the reproduction of inequality, and the economic exploitation of the racial body.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Racial Politics of Life -- 2 The Making of BiDil -- 3 Biosocial Citizenship -- 4 Enlightened Geneticization of Race -- 5 Racial Vital Value -- 6 Neoliberalization of Life -- Bibliography -- Index.

Racial Prescriptions explores the politics of dealing with health inequities through targeting pharmaceuticals at specific racial groups based on the idea that they are genetically different. Drawing on the introduction of BiDil to treat heart failure among African Americans, this book contends that while racialized pharmaceuticals are ostensibly about fostering life, they also raise thorny questions concerning the biologization of race, the reproduction of inequality, and the economic exploitation of the racial body.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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