Racial Prescriptions

Racial Prescriptions

Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life

Inda, Jonathan Xavier

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2014

152

Dura

Inglês

9781409444985

15 a 20 dias

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.
Contents: Racial politics of life; The making of BiDil; Biosocial citizenship; Enlightened geneticization of race; Racial vital value; Neoliberalization of life; Bibliography; Index.
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