Racial Prescriptions

Download or read book Racial Prescriptions written by Dr Jonathan Xavier Inda and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial Prescriptions explores the politics of dealing with health inequities through targeting pharmaceuticals at specific racial groups based on the idea that they are genetically different. Drawing on the introduction of BiDil to treat heart failure among African Americans, this book contends that while racialized pharmaceuticals are ostensibly about fostering life, they also raise thorny questions concerning the biologization of race, the reproduction of inequality, and the economic exploitation of the racial body.