Now is the Time for a Postracial Medicine: Biomedical Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the Perpetuation of Scientific Racism.

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 100898738 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1536-0075 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15265161 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Bioeth Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: <2008- > : Philadelphia, Pa. : Taylor & Francis
      Original Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001-
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    • Abstract:
      The consideration of racial differences in the biology of disease and treatment options is a hallmark of modern medicine. However, this time-honored medical tradition has no scientific basis, and the premise itself, that is, the existence of biological differences between the commonly known races, is false inasmuch as races are only sociocultural constructions. It is time to rid medical research of the highly damaging exercise of searching for supposed racial differences in the biological manifestations of disease. The practice not only condoned but required by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of utilizing racial identification as a demographic characteristic with assumed biological implications is at best badly flawed, and at worst unintentionally contributes to perpetuating the fallacy of natural differences between persons of different skin color, which has been used in the past to advance the cause of racial discrimination.
    • Comments:
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):63-65. (PMID: 28829254)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):61-63. (PMID: 28829256)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):58-60. (PMID: 28829258)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):54-56. (PMID: 28829260)
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      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):50-52. (PMID: 28829264)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):52-54. (PMID: 28829267)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):48-49. (PMID: 28829269)
      Comment in: Am J Bioeth. 2017 Sep;17(9):65-67. (PMID: 28829273)
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      Keywords: biomedical research; health policy; medical humanities; public health; race and culture/ethnicity
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20170823 Date Completed: 20190627 Latest Revision: 20211204
    • Publication Date:
      20240105
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/15265161.2017.1353165
    • Accession Number:
      28829268