Controversies Such as the One Involving BiDil Are Best Understood

question 16

Multiple Choice

Controversies such as the one involving BiDil are best understood as

• A) attempts to give old racial classifications a new lease on life.
• B) evidence that contemporary biomedical research produces only negative consequences.
• C) demonstrations that biological differences are a more powerful explanation for health disparities than are social factors.
• D) the outcome of various ways in which people struggle to contend with the significance of race in multiple social and biological registers simultaneously, often in contradictory manners.

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Definitions:

Systemic Blood Vessels

The network of blood vessels that circulate blood to and from the heart and all body parts, excluding the lungs.

Left Ventricle

The chamber of the heart that pumps oxygenated blood out through the aorta to the rest of the body.

Right Atrium

The right upper chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body via the venae cavae.

Fenestrated Capillaries

Capillaries with small pores in their endothelial lining allowing for increased permeability to fluids and small molecules, found in areas requiring extensive exchange such as in kidneys and endocrine glands.