Medicating Race:Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
by Anne Pollock
Duke University Press, 2012
280 pp, US$23.95 paperback
Anne Pollock’s new book, Medicating Race, is a meditation on the history and present state of racialized (specifically African American) forms of heart disease. As a history it is particularly interesting, documenting the emergence of the concept of ‘risk …
The current issue of Anthropology & Medicine is a special issue entitled, “Irrational reproduction: new intersections of politics, gender, race, and class across the north-south divide”. In their introduction to the issue, Elizabeth L. Krause and Silvia De Zordo write:
“This special issue reveals how rationalities concerned with reproductive and sexual bodies arise and circulate over historic time and
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While a wealth of literature exists on emerging reproductive and genetic technologies, usable educational resources in other mediums are few and far between. A new series of videos helps to fill this lacuna, providing engaging, accessible and thought-provoking commentary on the human aspects of biotechnology, science, and medical practice.
The videos feature commentary, remarks, and reflections from over 50 esteemed …
Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease (Beacon Press, 2010) is an ideal introductory text for introducing students to ethical issues surrounding politics, prejudice, and psychiatric diagnosis. The reader will experience the indignity and paranoia that African American men being treated for schizophrenia in the 1960s and 1970s had to face. They will come to …
Contributed by Talia Weiner (University of Chicago)
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference this August was not just a site of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarly exchange, or a good excuse to plan a trip to Japan. It offered, in the almost endearingly undertheorized words of the Society’s online Annual Meeting announcement, no less than “a chance …
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior recently ran a supplemental issue dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the journal and of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. The issue is made up of a series of reviews about key issues in medical sociology written by some of the leading scholars in the sub-discipline. Aside from being …