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

New York : New York University Press, [2014]

xii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.