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<p>In 2005 the FDA approved a pill to treat high blood preassure only in African Americans. This so-called miracle drug was named BiDil, and it became the first race-specific drug in the United States. It might sound like a good a good thing, but it had the unintended consequence of perpetuating the myth that race is a biological construct. </p> <p><a id="credits" name="credits"></a></p> <h2>Credits</h2> <p>Hosts: <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/alexis-j-pedrick">Alexis Pedrick</a> and <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/elisabeth-berry-drago">Elisabeth Berry Drago</a><br /> Senior Producer: <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/mariel-carr">Mariel Carr</a><br /> Producer: <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/rigoberto-hernandez">Rigoberto Hernandez</a><br /> Associate Producer: <a href= "https://sciencehistory.org/profile/padmini-parthasarathy">Padmini Raghunath</a><br /> Audio Engineer: <a href="https://www.podbrain.org/">Jonathan Pfeffer</a></p> <p>“Innate Theme” composed by <a href= "https://www.podbrain.org/">Jonathan Pfeffer</a>. Additional music by <a href="https://www.sessions.blue/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Blue Dot Sessions</a>.<br />  </p> <h2>Resource List</h2> <p><a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/fatal-invention" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century</a>, by Dorothy Roberts</p> <p><a href= "https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-17-oe-obasogie17-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oprah’s Unhealthy Mistake</a>, by Osagie K. Obasogie</p> <p><a href= "https://academic.oup.com/columbia-scholarship-online/book/14202" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age</a>, by Jonathan Kahn</p> <p><a href="https://www.calumeteditions.com/authors/jay-cohn-m-d/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saving Sam: Drugs, Race, and Discovering the Secrets of Heart Disease</a>, by Jay Cohn</p> <p><a h