Racial and ethnic categories in biomedical research: There is no baby in the bathwater
Racial and ethnic categories in biomedical research: There is no baby in the bathwater
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00061.x
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Cho, Mildred K.
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作者：
Cho, Mildred K.
在生物医学中使用种族分类在美国有着悠久的历史。然而，以所谓的科学差异为理由的社会等级和歧视也困扰着种族分类的历史。由于“种族”与生物学和遗传学特征有一定的相关性，因此有人呼吁不要通过将种族作为研究或临床类别来“把婴儿和洗澡水一起扔掉”。我认为，种族是太不确定和流动是有用的生物学或遗传学的代理。
The use of racial categories in biomedicine has had a long history in the United States. However, social hierarchy and discrimination, justified by purported scientific differences, has also plagued the history of racial categories. Because "race" has some correlation with biological and genetic characteristics, there has been a call not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" by eliminating race as a research or clinical category. I argue that race is too undefined and fluid to be useful as a proxy for biology or genetics.