This review explores the limitations of self-reported race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry in
biomedical research. Various terminologies are used to classify human differences in …

The use of population descriptors such as race, ethnicity, and ancestry in science, medicine,
and public health has a long, complicated, and at times dark history, particularly for genetics …

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since
the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with …

The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee,
Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical …

Social and biomedical scientists, journal editors, and public health officials continue to
debate the merits of the use of race and ethnicity in health-related research. As biomedical …

With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, the debate over the
existence of a biological basis for race has been revived. In Revisiting Race in a Genomic …

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades,
media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why …

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Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and
obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist …

Pharmacogenomics is increasingly moving into mainstream clinical practice. Careful
consideration must be paid to inclusion of diverse populations in research, translation and …