Killer Applications
Killer Applications
The Racial Pharmacology of Prescription Drugs
The chapter investigates the use of race and metabolic syndrome in biomedical research on the use of statins and antipsychotics among African Americans and develop the metaphor of killer applications to examine how prescription drugs operate in the politics of metabolism. I argue that the search for killer applications, an industry term for superior market-dominant technologies, has transformed the ways that pharmaceutical corporations create and scientists study prescription drugs, metabolism, and race.
Keywords: statins, anti-psychotic medication, African Americans, killer applications, phameceutical corporations, prescription drugs, biomedical research
Minnesota Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
