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Racial categories in medical practice and research
October 8th, 2007
Is it good medical practice for physicians to “eyeball” a patient’s race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race" Three articles in PLoS Medicine discuss the pitfalls of such racial profiling in both clinical practice and medical research. Anne Fausto-Sterling and colleagues from the Race, Medicine, and Science Workshop, Cambridge, USA, discuss how racial categories have become embedded in medical research. For example, since 2001, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health have been required to categorize study participants into five racial or ethnic categories. "State-sanctioned but ill-defined categories of race...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2007-10-08)
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