Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14445

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Publication type: Journal Article

Pollock A.
Pharmaceutical meaning-making beyond marketing: racialized subjects of generic thiazide.
J Law Med Ethics. 2008 Fal; 36:(3):530-6
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121385670/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Abstract:

In contrast to discussions of BiDil, this paper explores racial meaning-making processes around an old generic hypertension drug. By unpacking a vignette about race and thiazide outside marketing or medicine, it shows that racialization of drugs exceeds those spheres and moves in unpredictable ways.