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Reforming the Use of Race in Medical Pedagogy

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Perez-Rodriguez and de la Fuente, a physician and a historian of Afro-Caribbean slavery, make a compelling interdisciplinary contribution to the expanding humanities and social science literature contesting continued use of racial categories in both biomedical research and in the clinic (Perez-Rodriguez and de la Fuente 2017). This contribution is especially important at a moment when racial essentialism is growing in biomedicine, despite a weak evidence base. The authors channel frustration and impatience about racist science that are widely (if unevenly) spread throughout academia—frustration and impatience upon which we remarked upon in our own recent paper criticizing racial essentialism in medical science teaching.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/98v1-nr89

Authors: Saunders, Barry F., Braun, Lundy

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Race, Genetics, and Society

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4414633770

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