What “Race” Cannot Tell Us about Access to Kidney Transplantation
Despite a growing awareness within American biomedicine and bioethics that the social category “race” is of limited use in describing patients, some fields of medicine continue to use it interchangeably with, or instead of, the term “ethnicity.” Doing so reflects the assumption that social categorie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2002
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2002, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 134-141 |
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| Summary: | Despite a growing awareness within American biomedicine and bioethics that the social category “race” is of limited use in describing patients, some fields of medicine continue to use it interchangeably with, or instead of, the term “ethnicity.” Doing so reflects the assumption that social categories have a basis in physiology. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180102112059 |