Bio

About Anne Pollock

Anne Pollock is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech.

Trained in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology & Society at MIT, her research focuses on biomedicine and culture in the US.  She is particularly interested in how medical categories and technologies are enrolled in telling stories about identity and difference, especially with regard to race, gender, and citizenship.

She is currently revising her book manuscript about the intersecting trajectories of race, pharmaceuticals, and cardiovascular disease in the United States from the founding of cardiology to the commercial failure of BiDil, and engaged in ongoing projects about feminism and heart disease and pharmaceuticals amid the financial crisis.

Work

Recent Publications

“Reading Friedan Toward a Feminist Articulation of Heart Disease,” accepted by Body & Society.

“Pharmaceutical Meaning-Making Beyond Marketing: Racialized Subjects of Generic Thiazide.” The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 36.3 (Sept 2008): 530-536.

“The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator.” Ed. Sherry Turkle. The Inner History of Devices: Technology and Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008: 98-111.