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Race-Based Medicine Videos

The Problem with Race-Based Medicine

"Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine."  March 2016

Race-Based Medicine Policy Statements

American Medical Association

Racial Essentialism in Medicine, 2020

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Elimination of Race as a Proxy for Ancestry, Genetics, and Biology in Medical Education, Research and Clinical Practice, 2020

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American Academy of Pediatrics

AAP Perspective: Race-Based Medicine, 2021

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American Academy of Family Physicians

Race Based Medicine, 2020

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Articles

How Should Educators and Publishers Eliminate Racial Essentialism?

Jennifer Tsai, MD, MEd

AMA Journal of Ethics

Published in 2022


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Use of Race in Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Making: Overview and Implications

Kaiser Family Foundation article written by Michelle Tong and Samantha Artiga
Published: Dec 09, 2021

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Book

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

Photo of the book cover for Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

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