Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?

Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto‐Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M. Reverby, Alexandra E. Shields

PLoS Medicine · 2007 · 238 citations · 54 references

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research journals Throughout the 20th century, race had no standard defi nition in medical, epidemiological, or health services research In epidemiology, race vaguely referred to "persons who are relatively homogenous with respect to biologic inheritance" One survey of medical and epidemiological

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