Tag: BiDil

  • The field of human genetics is moving beyond using genomics as a tool for deeper understanding of human disease pathophysiology to the possibility of translating this knowledge for efficient treatment. A particular emphasis is being placed on Individualized medicine’, promising to tailor treatment based on each of our genomes. This ideal vision, however, can cause…

  • Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans New York University 2009-10-16 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology, discusses race-based medications.

  • From Medical Innovation to Sociopolitical Crisis: How Racialized Medicine Has Shifted the Scope of Racial Discourse and its Social Consequences Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut May 2013 51 pages Danielle Antonia Craig An essay submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental…

  • Book Review: Race in a Bottle GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26 Issue 1, March 2013 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University In Race in a Bottle, Jonathan Kahn tracks the contentious history of BiDil, the first drug targeted specifically to African…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • The End of Race History? Not Yet Center for Genetics and Society 2012-12-14 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, Hastings Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become “post-racial”—a moment that law professor Sumi Cho of DePaul University in Chicago refers to as…

  • From Bang to Whimper: A Heart Drug’s Story The New York Times 2012-12-24 Abigail Zuger, M.D. Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. Columbia University Press, December 2012, 336 pages. On June 23, 2005, American medicine managed to take a small step forward and a…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Duke University Press October 2012 280 pages 5 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5344-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5329-4 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in…

  • At a ceremony announcing the completion of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, President Bill Clinton declared, “I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same.”…

  • Race in a Bottle Scientific American Volume 297 (January 1, 2007) pages 40-45 Jonathan D. Kahn, Professor of Law Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science. This article focuses on the drug, BiDil – a drug…