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 and Alexandra E Shields

PLOS Medicine, 2007, vol. 4, issue 9, 1-6

Abstract: Is it good medical practice for physicians to "eyeball" a patient's race when assessing their medical status or even to ask them to identify their race?

Date: 2007
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