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Genes, race, and population: Avoiding a collision of categories

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  • Kahn, J.

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A wide array of federal mandates have a profound impact on the use of racial and ethnic categories in biomedical research, clinical practice, product development, and health policy. Current discussions over the appropriate use of racial and ethnic categories in biomedical contexts have largely focused on the practices of individual researchers. By contrast, our discussion focuses on relations between the daily practices of biomedical professionals and federal regulatory mandates. It draws upon the legal doctrine of equal protection to move beyond such debates and to propose guidelines to address the structural forces imposed by federal regulations that mandate how data about race and ethnicity are used in biomedical research. It offers a framework to manage the tension involved in using existing federally mandated categories of race and ethnicity alongside new scientific findings about human genetic variation.

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  • Kahn, J., 2006. "Genes, race, and population: Avoiding a collision of categories," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 96(11), pages 1965-1970.
  • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2005.067926_3
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.067926
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    1. Reanne Frank, 2015. "Back to the Future? The Emergence of a Geneticized Conceptualization of Race in Sociology," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 661(1), pages 51-64, September.
    2. Frank, Reanne, 2007. "What to make of it? The (Re)emergence of a biological conceptualization of race in health disparities research," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 64(10), pages 1977-1983, May.
    3. Kelaher, M. & Paul, Sheila & Lambert, Helen & Ahmad, Waqar & Paradies, Yin & Davey Smith, George, 2008. "Discrimination and health in an English study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(7), pages 1627-1636, April.

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