Introduction: Critical Race Theory and the Health Sciences

To see race as a natural phenomenon creates barriers for understanding how the human-made environment produces disease outcomes. [...]the connections between social policy and racial disparities in health go unacknowledged at the level of research design within the laboratory. Rarely does the notion...

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Published inAmerican journal of law & medicine Vol. 43; no. 2-3; pp. 179 - 182
Main Authors Bridges, Khiara M., Keel, Terence, Obasogie, Osagie K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 22.06.2017
Sage Publications, Inc
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Analysis
Biodiversity
Continental Population Groups
Critical race theory
Critical theory
Delivery of Health Care - ethnology
Epidemiology
Essentialism
Health
Health disparities
Health sciences
Health Status Disparities
Human populations
Humans
Inequality
Intersectionality
Marginalized groups
Medicine
Personal Autonomy
Politics
Prejudice
Public health
Public Health - statistics & numerical data
Race
Racism
Racism - ethnology
Research design
Scientists
Social Class
Social determinants of health
Social Discrimination - ethnology
Social policy
Theory
United States
United States
United States > US
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Summary:To see race as a natural phenomenon creates barriers for understanding how the human-made environment produces disease outcomes. [...]the connections between social policy and racial disparities in health go unacknowledged at the level of research design within the laboratory. Rarely does the notion that society shapes biology become a guiding principle in doctor/patient relationships or those between researchers and human subjects. [...]attention to the social determinants of health and behavior is vital for moving the health sciences toward more innovative conceptions of human biodiversity. [...]one of the major interventions of CRT within the context of law has been documenting the instability of legal protections and exposing the contradictions of rights discourse. [...]incorporating CRT into the study of human populations prompts us to go beyond the quantitative measures fetishized in medical and scientific research.
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ISSN:0098-8588
2375-835X
DOI:10.1177/0098858817723657