Book ID: CBB001550281

Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-genomic Age (2013)

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Kahn, Jonathan (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xi + 311 pp.
Language: English

Approved by the FDA in 2005 as the first drug with a race-specific indication on its label, BiDil was touted as a pathbreaking therapy to treat heart failure in black patients. Kahn reveals that, at the most basic level, BiDil became racial through legal maneuvering and commercial pressure as much as through medical understandings of how the drug worked. He examines the legal and calls for a more reasoned approach to using race in biomedical research and practice

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Review Hochschild, Jennifer L. (2014) Review of "Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-genomic Age". Journal of American History (pp. 1302-1303). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cipriani, Giovanni
Bovone, Giulia
Pollock, Anne
Cevolani, Enrico
Suzanna Reiss
Hiepko, Kathrin A.
Concepts
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical industry
Medicine and politics
Therapeutics
Pharmacology
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Places
United States
Italy
Cuba
South Africa
Germany
East Germany
Institutions
American College of Cardiology
United States. Food and Drug Administration
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Deutsche Pharmazuetische Gesellschaft
American Society for Pharmacology
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