Is research into ethnicity and health racist, unsound or important science?
Is research into ethnicity and health racist, unsound or important science?
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.314.7096.1751
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发表时间：
1997-06-14
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Bhopal, R
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Bhopal, R
许多关于种族、智力和健康的历史研究都是种族主义的、不道德的和无效的。种族和族裔的概念很难定义，但仍继续应用于移民和少数民族群体的健康研究，以期增进对疾病原因的理解。虽然已经产生了大量的关联，但健康研究中的种族和民族很少对疾病产生根本性的新认识。大多数此类研究都是“黑匣子流行病学”。研究人员尚未克服种族和健康研究中的许多概念和技术问题。通过强调少数族裔群体健康的消极方面，研究可能损害了他们的社会地位，并转移了对他们健康优先事项的注意力。除非研究人员认识到种族和健康研究的困难并纠正其弱点，否则20世纪的这一主题的研究可能会遭受与19世纪的种族科学相同的可耻命运。
Much historical research on race, intelligence, and health was racist, unethical, and ineffective. The concepts of race and ethnicity are difficult to define but continue to be applied to the study of the health of immigrant and ethnic minority groups in the hope of advancing understanding of causes of disease. While a morass of associations has been generated, race and ethnicity in health research have seldom given fundamental new understanding of disease. Most such research is ''black box epidemiology.'' Researchers have not overcome the many conceptual and technical problems of research into ethnicity and health. By emphasising the negative aspects of the health of ethnic minority groups, research may have damaged their social standing and deflected attention from their health priorities, Unless researchers recognise the difficulties with research into ethnicity and health and correct its weaknesses, 20th century research in this subject may suffer the same ignominious fate as that ofrace science in the 19th century.