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September 19, 2007PLoS Medicine240 citationsOpen Access

Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?

LBLundy BraunAFAnne Fausto‐SterlingDFDuana Fullwiley

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research journals Throughout the 20th century, race had no standard defi nition in medical, epidemiological, or health services research In epidemiology, race vaguely referred to "persons who are relatively homogenous with respect to biologic inheritance" One survey of medical and epidemiological

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a110aa1e2199439c8f3314ahttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040271
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