This viewpoint proposes an evolved dermatology framework recognizing biology and social context in skin color analysis.
This Viewpoint describes how the framework of “skin of color” in dermatology must evolve to a more precise, pigment-informed framework that acknowledges biology without reducing people to ancestry and recognizes social context without using race as a surrogate for skin.
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Sarkar et al. (2026) studied this question.
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