Avoiding Racial Essentialism in Medical Science Curricula
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15745007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lundy Braun (Brown University, corresponding author), Barry F Saunders (0000-0002-7316-0967, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 518-527 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980 |
| Publisher | American Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.peer1-1706 |
| PMID | 28644780 |
| OpenAlex | W2621378744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 20 |
A wave of medical student activism is shining a spotlight on medical educators' sometimes maladroit handling of racial categories in teaching about health disparities. Coinciding with recent critiques, primarily by social scientists, regarding the imprecise and inappropriate use of race as a biological or epidemiological risk factor in genetics research, medical student activism has triggered new collaborations among students, faculty, and administrators to rethink how race is addressed in the medical curriculum. Intensifying critiques of racial essentialism are a crucial concern for educators since bioscientific knowledge grounds the authority of health professionals. Central ethical issues-racial bias and social justice-cannot be properly addressed without confronting the epistemological problem of racial essentialism in bioscience teaching. Thus, educators now face an ethical imperative to improve academic capacities for robust interdisciplinary teaching about the conceptual apparatus of race and the recalibration of its use in teaching both genetics and the more pervasive and urgent social causes of health inequalities
Criminology · Curriculum · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Essentialism · Face (sociological concept · Health care · Health equity · Pedagogy · Political science · Race (biology · Racism · Social science · Sociology · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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Shades of Citizenship
Race and Reification in Science
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Racial Bias in Health Care and Health
Taking race out of human genetics
Critical Race Theory
Reproducing Race
Contemporary Epidemiology
Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism
Black Lives Matter
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
Stormy Weather
Infectious Fear
Breathing Race into the Machine
Structural competency
Is Racism a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health
Genes, Race, and Culture in Clinical Care
| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 3.4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |