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What “Race” Cannot Tell Us about Access to Kidney Transplantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2002

ELISA J. GORDON
ELISA J. GORDON
Affiliation:
Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois
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Extract

Despite a growing awareness within American biomedicine and bioethics that the social category “race” is of limited use in describing patients, some fields of medicine continue to use it interchangeably with, or instead of, the term “ethnicity.” Doing so reflects the assumption that social categories have a basis in physiology.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: MEANINGS AND CONTEXTS: ANTHROPOLICAL PERSPECTIVES IN BIOETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 134 - 141
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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