Research

My areas of study include biomedicine and culture, science and technology studies, history and social studies of medicine, race and gender, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease.

Book Project

Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference traces the intersecting trajectories of race, heart disease, and pharmaceuticals in the US, from the founding of American cardiology to the commercial failure of BiDil – a much-heralded 2005 drug bearing the controversial indication “for heart failure in self-identified blacks.”

Ongoing Projects

Feminist theory and heart disease, health disparities and American citizenship claims, the pharmaceutical industry amid the financial crisis