Race, Racism, and the Policy of 21st Century Medicine

This perspective describes three new policies passed at the November 2020 Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. These policies (1) denounce racism as a public health threat; (2) call for the elimination of race as a proxy for ancestry, genetics, and biology in medic...

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Autores principales: Keeys, Mia, Baca, Joaquin, Maybank, Aletha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: YJBM 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33795992
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description This perspective describes three new policies passed at the November 2020 Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. These policies (1) denounce racism as a public health threat; (2) call for the elimination of race as a proxy for ancestry, genetics, and biology in medical education, research, and clinical practice; and (3) decry racial essentialism in medicine. We also explore the social and institutional context leading to the passage of these policies, which speak directly to the harmful legacy of racism in America, and its insidious impact on the healthcare system.
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spelling pubmed-79959542021-03-31 Race, Racism, and the Policy of 21st Century Medicine Keeys, Mia Baca, Joaquin Maybank, Aletha Yale J Biol Med Perspectives This perspective describes three new policies passed at the November 2020 Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. These policies (1) denounce racism as a public health threat; (2) call for the elimination of race as a proxy for ancestry, genetics, and biology in medical education, research, and clinical practice; and (3) decry racial essentialism in medicine. We also explore the social and institutional context leading to the passage of these policies, which speak directly to the harmful legacy of racism in America, and its insidious impact on the healthcare system. YJBM 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7995954/ /pubmed/33795992 Text en Copyright ©2021, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
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