Why Do Medical Researchers Study Race

Communicating the Value of Race and …

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Until recently, researchers assumed that what they learned about White male participants could be …

Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research - JAMA

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2775794

The time has come to recalibrate the use of race in medical research. The call to entirely abandon race from medical research endeavors began several decades …

Why Are We Still Using Race as a Variable …

https://www.publichealthpost.org/research/why-are-we-still-using-race-as-a-variable-in-health-research/

We continue to ignore, at great risk, the social, structural, and environmental factors that create disparate health outcomes between human populations. Many …

Use of Race in Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Making: …

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/use-of-race-in-clinical-diagnosis-and-decision-making-overview-and-implications/

What Role Should Race Play in Medicine?

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In medicine, race is often portrayed as physiological and innate. This reifies race as a genetic variable. Race, whatever it is, trickles its character into bridging blood …

Genes And Race Are Not The Same Thing : …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/05/465616472/is-it-time-to-stop-using-race-in-medical-research

Medical researchers often use race to define health risks. But a geneticist and a sociologist say racial categories don't accurately reflect who people are, and …

Why we should continue to study race...but do a better …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8882833/

Consequently, some researchers have begun to advocate the abolition of medical and public health research using race. In this essay, I argue that, although the arguments …

Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but …

How to Study Racial Disparities - Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-study-racial-disparities/

A second challenge, as the political scientists Maya Sen and Omar Wasow point out, comes from the instability of racial labels. As one study concluded, “No two …

Race-based medicine is wrong. How should …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/race-based-medicine-wrong-how-should-physicians-oppose-it

In “Examining Race-Based Medicine,” a recent episode in the AMA “Prioritizing Equity” video series, a panel of experts discussed the core criticisms of race …