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Plural Constitutionalism And The Pathologies Of American Healthcare, Theodore Ruger
Plural Constitutionalism And The Pathologies Of American Healthcare, Theodore Ruger
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What’S Wrong With Race-Based Medicine?, Dorothy E. Roberts
What’S Wrong With Race-Based Medicine?, Dorothy E. Roberts
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This article is based on the 2010 Dienard Memorial Lecture on Law and Medicine at University of Minnesota and part of a larger book project, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011). In June 2005, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first pharmaceutical indicated for a specific race. Its racial label elicited three types of criticism – scientific, commercial, and political. I discuss the first two controversies en route to what I consider the main problem with race-based medicine – its political implications. By claiming that race, a …