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Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
Janet K. Shim
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Description for Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
Paperback. Examining the routine activities of epidemiology - grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results, this book shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community. Series: Biopolitics. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and industrialized countries have made substantial investments in research and treatment over the past six decades, patterns of inequality persist. In Heart-Sick, Janet K. Shim argues that official accounts of cardiovascular health inequalities are unconvincing and inadequate, and that clinical and public health interventions grounded in these accounts ignore many critical causes ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
Biopolitics
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814786857
SKU
V9780814786857
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99-50
About Janet K. Shim
Janet K. Shim is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Reviews for Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease (Biopolitics: Medicine, Technoscience, and Health in the 21st Century)
In this cutting-edge book, Janet Shim meticulous unearths the inner logic of epidemiology to show how the familiar categories of race, gender, and class are inserted into medical knowledge in ways that strip them of social significance. Her fascinating interviews reveal a broad gulf between how experts conceive of the causes of health inequalities and how ordinary people caught in ... Read more