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.
Pollock
Anne
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Department of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech.
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