Lessons from history: why race and ethnicity have played a major role in biomedical research
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Duster, TroyKeywords
Biomedical ResearchEugenics
Law
Medicine
Research
Science
Slavery
History of Health Ethics / Bioethics
Sociology of Health Care
Genetics and Human Ancestry
Human Experimentation Policy Guidelines / Institutional Review Boards
Research on Special Populations
Health Care for Minorities
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/509449Abstract
Before any citizen enters the role of scientist, medical practitioner, lawyer, epidemiologist, and so on, each and all grow up in a society in which the categories of human differentiation are folk categories that organize perceptions, relations, and behavior. That was true during slavery, during Reconstruction, the eugenics period, the two World Wars, and is no less true today. While every period understandably claims to transcend those categories, medicine, law, and science are profoundly and demonstrably influenced by the embedded folk notions of race and ethnicity.Date
2011-07-12Identifier
oai::10822/509449Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006 Fall; 34(3): 487-496
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/509449