Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction  1

1. Racial Preoccupations and Early Cardiology  28

2. Making Normal Populations and Making Difference in the Framingham and Jackson Heart Studies  52

3. The Durability of African American Hypertension as a Disease Category  83

4. The Slavery Hypothesis beyond Genetic Determinism  107

5. Thiazide Diuretics at a Nexus of Associations: Racialized, Proven, Old, Cheap  131

6. BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure  155

Conclusion  180

Notes  197

Works Cited  225

Index  253

“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

“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 and Illness

“This is a thought-provoking work, highlighting the social forces evident in the ‘plural noninnocent discourses’ regarding race and medicine.”—J.D. Campbell, Choice

“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

“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 and Illness

“This is a thought-provoking work, highlighting the social forces evident in the ‘plural noninnocent discourses’ regarding race and medicine.”—J.D. Campbell, Choice

"Medicating Race charts a new course in critical race studies in biomedicine, one that takes seriously the vital importance of healing, the 'durable preoccupation' with race, and the somatic toll of racism. Anne Pollock asks us to revisit some of our most cherished assumptions about race and biomedicine in this theoretically informed and usefully provocative exploration of the social meanings of heart disease."—Alondra Nelson, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination

"Based on exceptionally thorough scholarship and full of thought-provoking ideas, Medicating Race addresses one of the most perplexing and contentious topics in biomedical research and medical practice during the past century: race and its implications for health, disease, and treatment. Anne Pollock is trained in science and technology studies and is sensitive to the complexities of knowledge, politics, markets, and social categories. In this original study, she reveals how the modern history of heart disease is intertwined not only with the emergence and growth of the field of cardiology but also with civil rights struggles, pharmaceutical drug development and marketing, and changing notions of the biological and social meanings of race."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

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