Subprime health : debt and race in u.s. medicine; ed. by nadine ehlers

Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to this volume propose that race-based medicine is inextricable from debt in two key senses. They first demonstrate how the financial costs related to race-based medicine disproportionately burden minorities, as well as how monetary debt and race are conditioned by broader relations of power. Second, the contributors investigate how race-based medicine is related to the concept of indebtedness and is often positioned as a way to pay back the debt that the medical establishment—and society at large—owes for the past and present neglect and abuses of many communities of color. By approaching the subject of race-based medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective — critical race studies, science and technology studies, public health, sociology, geography, and law—this volume moves the discussion beyond narrow and familiar debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful new directions for future research. From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical "hot spotting" and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to this volume propose that race-based medicine is inextricable from debt in two key senses. They first demonstrate how the financial costs related to race-based medicine disproportionately burden minorities, as well as how monetary debt and race are conditioned by broader relations of power. Second, the contributors investigate how race-based medicine is related to the concept of indebtedness and is often positioned as a way to pay back the debt that the medical establishment—and society at large—owes for the past and present neglect and abuses of many communities of color. By approaching the subject of race-based medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective—critical race studies, science and technology studies, public health, sociology, geography, and law—this volume moves the discussion beyond narrow and familiar debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful new directions for future research. Contributors: Ruha Benjamin, Princeton U; Catherine Bliss, U of California, San Francisco; Khiara M. Bridges, Boston U; Shiloh Krupar, Georgetown U; Jenna M. Loyd, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Anne Pollock, Georgia Tech. From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical "hot spotting" and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to this volume propose that race-based medicine is inextricable from debt in two key senses. They first demonstrate how the financial costs related to race-based medicine disproportionately burden minorities, as well as how monetary debt and race are conditioned by broader relations of power. Second, the contributors investigate how race-based medicine is related to the concept of indebtedness and is often positioned as a way to pay back the debt that the medical establishment-and society at large-owes for the past and present neglect and abuses of many communities of color. By approaching the subject of race-based medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective-critical race studies, science and technology studies, public health, sociology, geography, and law-this volume moves the discussion beyond narrow and familiar debates over racial genomics and suggests fruitful new directions for future research. Contributors: Ruha Benjamin, Princeton U; Catherine Bliss, U of California, San Francisco; Khiara M. Bridges, Boston U; Shiloh Krupar, Georgetown U; Jenna M. Loyd, U of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Anne Pollock, Georgia Tech The High Cost Of Having Hypertension While Black In America / Leslie R. Hinkson -- When Treating Patients Like Criminals Makes Sense : Medical Hot Spotting, Race, And Debt / Nadine Ehlers And Shiloh Krupar -- Obamacare And Sovereign Debt : Race, Reparations, And The Haunting Of Premature Death / Jenna M. Loyd -- Bidil's Compensation Relations / Anne Pollock -- The Meaning Of Health Disparities / Catherine Bliss -- What Do We Owe Each Other? : Moral Debts And Racial Distrust In Experimental Stem Cell Science / Ruha Benjamin And Leslie R. Hinkson -- Lessons From Racial Medicine : The Group, The Individual, And The Equal Protection Clause / Khiara M. Bridges -- Conclusion : Freedom From Debt? / Leslie R. Hinkson And Nadine Ehlers. Nadine Ehlers And Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Introduction: Race- based Medicine and the Specter of Debt PART I. RACE-BASED MEDICINE AND MONET ARY DEBT 1 The High Cost of Having Hypertension while Black in America 2 “When Treating Patients like Criminals Makes Sense”: Medical Hot Spotting, Race, and Debt 3 Obamacare and Sovereign Debt: Race, Reparations, and the Haunting of Premature Death 4 BiDil’s Compensation Relations PART II. RACE-BASED MEDICINE AND INDEBTEDNESS 5 The Meaning of Health Disparities 6 What Do We Owe Each Other? Moral Debts and Racial Distrust in Experimental Stem Cell Science 7 Lessons from Racial Medicine: The Group, the Individual, and the Equal Protection Clause Conclusion: Freedom from Debt? Acknowledgments Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z