Heart-sick : the politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease /
Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and indu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- The politics of disease causation
- Disciplining difference: a selective contemporary history of cardiovascular epidemiology
- The contested meanings and intersections of race
- An apparent consensus on class
- The dichotomy of gender
- Individualizing "difference" and the production of scientific credibility.