Overview

From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions andmarketing, to race-targeted medical ""hot spotting"" and the Affordable Care Act,to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is atimely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept ofdebt. Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume moves thediscussion beyond debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful newdirections for future research.

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Author:   Nadine Ehlers ,  Leslie R. Hinkson
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781517901509

ISBN 10:   1517901502
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 July 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine deftly bridges the space between these two words. Drawing on the rich knowledge of eight professors of sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays perceptively examines the manifestation of race and racism in the American medical institution. --British Journal of Sports Medicine

Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine deftly bridges the space between these two words. Drawing on the rich knowledge of eight professors of sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays perceptively examines the manifestation of race and racism in the American medical institution. -British Journal of Sports Medicine

Author Information

Nadine Ehlers teaches in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is author of Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection. Leslie R. Hinkson is assistant professor of sociology at Georgetown University.

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