Kahn Race in a Bottle

The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-53127-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Approved by the FDA in 2005, BiDil was originally touted as a pathbreaking therapy to treat heart failure in black patients and help underserved populations. Upon closer examination, Jonathan Kahn reveals BiDil became racial through legal maneuvering and commercial pressure as much as through medical understandings of how the drug worked. Using BiDil as a case study, Kahn broadly examines the distinct politics informing the use of race in medicine and the very real health disparities caused by racism and social injustice that are being cast as a function of genetic difference. Kahn shows that, just as genetics is a complex field requiring sensitivity and expertise, so too is race, particularly in the field of biomedicine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kahn, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht Biotechnologie- und Biomedizinrecht, Gentechnikrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: Race and Medicine: Framing [Is] the Problem
1. ORGANIZING RACE: Paths Toward the Re-Biologization of Race in Modern Biomedical Research, Practice, and Product Development
2. THE BIRTH OF BIDIL: How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic"
3. STATISTICAL MISCHIEF AND RACIAL FRAMES FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING
4. CAPITALIZING [ON] RACE IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT
5. RACE-ING PATENTS/PATENTING RACE: An Emerging Political Geography of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology
6. NOT FADE AWAY: The Persistence of Race and the Politics of the "Meantime" in Pharmacogenomics
7. FROM DISPARITY TO DIFFERENCE: The Politics of Racial Medicine
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Notes
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Kahn is professor of law at Hamline University School of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in United States history from Cornell University and a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1897–1928.