Heart-Sick : : The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease / / Janet K. Shim.
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 ind...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biopolitics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Politics of Disease Causation
- 2. Disciplining Difference
- 3. The Contested Meanings and Intersections of Race
- 4. An Apparent Consensus on Class
- 5. The Dichotomy of Gender
- 6. Individualizing “Difference” and the Production of Scientific Credibility
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Methodology
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author