Heart-sick : the politics of risk, inequality, and heart disease / Janet K. Shim.

  • Shim, Janet K., 1969-
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

New York : New York University Press, [2014]

Physical description

xii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The politics of disease causation -- Disciplining difference: a selective contemporary history of cardiovascular epidemiology -- The contested meanings and intersections of race -- An apparent consensus on class -- The dichotomy of gender -- Individualizing "difference" and the production of scientific credibility.

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    Medical Collection
    WG210 2014S55h
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ISBN

  • 9780814786857
  • 0814786855