Racial Categories in Medicine: A Failure of Evidence-Based Practice?
Open Access
- 25 September 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (9) , e287
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040287
Abstract
Race and ethnicity are imprecise markers of the genotypic and sociocultural determinants of health, argue the authors.Keywords
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