Racial distinctions in medicine.
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Race, money and medicines.
Taking notice of race is both risky and inevitable, in medicine no less than in other endeavors. On the one hand, race can be a useful stand-in for unstudied genetic and environmental factors that yield differences in disease expression and therapeutic response. Attention to race can make a therapeutic difference, to the point of saving lives. On the other hand, racial distinctions have social ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- DePaul journal of health care law
دوره 5 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002