Inda, J.X.Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life. 2014. 144pp £60 ISBN 978‐1409444985

ARIZA, LUCÍA

Sociology of Health & Illness

Sage

Año: 2015 vol. 37

1467-9566

Undoubtedly, ?race? is one of the key categories underpinning the contemporary reorganisation of biomedicine. In a society like the US, both medicalised to an unprecedented degree and characterised by an increasingly competitive market for drugs, race has come to embody the potential for a valuable differential, perpetuating the generation of not only economic but also ethical value from the exaltation of difference. Jonathan Inda?s monograph aims to explore a contemporary politics where race and pharmaceuticals are intertwined, taking as its case study the most (in)famous example of the current trend toward the capitalisation of race: BiDil.