Racial categories in medical practice: How useful are they?

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作者
Braun, Lundy
Fausto-Sterling, Anne [1 ]
Fullwiley, Duana
Hammonds, Evelynn M.
Nelson, Alondra
Quivers, William
Reverby, Susan M.
Shields, Alexandra E.
机构
[1] Brown Univ, Fac Committee Sci & Technol Studies, Dept Mol & Cellular Biol, Program Women Studies, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[2] Brown Univ, Dept Pathol & Lab Med, African Studies, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[3] Harvard Univ, Dept Anthropol, Africa & African Amer Studies, Cambridge, MA USA
[4] Harvard Univ, Fac Dev & Diversity, Africa & African Amer Studies, Cambridge, MA USA
[5] Yale Univ, Dept Sociol, African Amer Studies, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[6] Wellesley Coll, Dept Phys, Wellesley, MA USA
[7] Wellesley Coll, Dept Women Studies, Wellesley, MA USA
[8] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Harvard Med Sch, Ctr Genom Vulnerab Populat & Hlth Disparities, Boston, MA USA
来源
PLOS MEDICINE | 2007年 / 4卷 / 09期
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10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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[No abstract available]
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页码:1423 / 1428
页数:6
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