Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?

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?

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Autores principales: Braun, Lundy, Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Fullwiley, Duana, Hammonds, Evelynn M, Nelson, Alondra, Quivers, William, Reverby, Susan M, Shields, Alexandra E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1989738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17896853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271
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author Braun, Lundy
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Fullwiley, Duana
Hammonds, Evelynn M
Nelson, Alondra
Quivers, William
Reverby, Susan M
Shields, Alexandra E
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Reverby, Susan M
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spelling pubmed-19897382007-09-22 Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They? Braun, Lundy Fausto-Sterling, Anne Fullwiley, Duana Hammonds, Evelynn M Nelson, Alondra Quivers, William Reverby, Susan M Shields, Alexandra E PLoS Med Essay 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? Public Library of Science 2007-09 2007-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC1989738/ /pubmed/17896853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271 Text en © 2007 Braun et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Braun, Lundy
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
Fullwiley, Duana
Hammonds, Evelynn M
Nelson, Alondra
Quivers, William
Reverby, Susan M
Shields, Alexandra E
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title_full Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title_fullStr Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title_full_unstemmed Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title_short Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
title_sort racial categories in medical practice: how useful are they?
topic Essay
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1989738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17896853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271
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