Bio

About Anne Pollock

Anne Pollock received her PhD in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT. Her research interests include biomedicine and culture, science and technology studies, and race and gender. She is especially interested in the intersections of medical technologies and differentiated identities in the U.S.

She is currently working on a book 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.

Work

Recent Publications

“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.