Race in a bottle : the story of BiDil and racialized medicine in a post-genomic age / Jonathan Kahn.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

xi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-301) and index.

Organizing race : paths toward the re-biologization of race in modern biomedical research, practice, and product development -- The birth of BiDil : how a drug becomes "ethnic" -- Statistical mischief and racial frames for drug development and marketing -- Capitalizing (on) race in drug development -- Race-ing patents/patenting race : an emerging political geography of intellectual property in biotechnology -- Not fade away : the persistence of race and the politics of the "meantime" in pharmacogenomics -- From disparity to difference : the politics of racial medicine.