Pharmaceutical meaning-making beyond marketing: racialized subjects of generic thiazide.
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.
Department of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech.
Anne
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Pollock
D001741:Black or African American; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016568:Drugs, Generic; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000378:metabolism; D040541:Marketing; D012982:Sodium, Dietary / Q000378:metabolism; D049971:Thiazides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014481:United States
D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D016568:Drugs, Generic; D012982:Sodium, Dietary; D049971:Thiazides