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Categorizations of Race and Ethnicity: Useful or Outmoded in Medicine?
The issue image this month takes its theme from an essay (see Braun et al. e271) and a related perspective (see Ellison et al. e287) that explore the controversy and offer opinions on the best way to name, define, and study race and ethnicity in medicine. Human race and ethnicity, although socially determined categories, are routinely used to assign people to groups in research and clinical medicine. But if these designations are socially determined, what do "black" and "white" really mean in biomedical science and clinical medicine? Is it even possible to reach a consensus on how most accurately and sensitively to name and define race and other groupings that are subject to social tension? The editorial (see Brown et al. e288) focuses on the editorial viewpoint of this question and surveys different solutions adopted by the publishing field.
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Editorial
Essays
Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers, Susan M Reverby, Alexandra E Shields
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Perspectives
George T. H Ellison, Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Simon M Outram, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Martin
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Policy Forums
Peter A Singer, Andrew D Taylor, Abdallah S Daar, Ross E. G Upshur, Jerome A Singh, James V Lavery
Kathryn Berndtson, Tina Daid, C. Shawn Tracy, Anant Bhan, Emma R. M Cohen, Ross E. G Upshur, Jerome A Singh, Abdallah S Daar, James V Lavery, Peter A Singer
Paulina O Tindana, Jerome A Singh, C. Shawn Tracy, Ross E. G Upshur, Abdallah S Daar, Peter A Singer, Janet Frohlich, James V Lavery
Anant Bhan, Jerome A Singh, Ross E. G Upshur, Peter A Singer, Abdallah S Daar
Peter Gernburd, Alejandro R Jadad
Research in Translation
Shahram Aarabi, Michael T Longaker, Geoffrey C Gurtner
Research Articles
G. Michael Allan, Joel Lexchin, Natasha Wiebe
Emanuele Di Angelantonio, John Danesh, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Vilmundur Gudnason
Saskia Kuipers, Suzanne C Cannegieter, Saskia Middeldorp, Luc Robyn, Harry R Büller, Frits R Rosendaal
Fina A. S Kurreeman, Leonid Padyukov, Rute B Marques, Steven J Schrodi, Maria Seddighzadeh, Gerrie Stoeken-Rijsbergen, Annette H. M van der Helm-van Mil, Cornelia F Allaart, Willem Verduyn, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Lars Alfredsson, Ann B Begovich, Lars Klareskog, Tom W. J Huizinga, Rene E. M Toes
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Girish S Kulkarni, Antonio Finelli, Neil E Fleshner, Michael A. S Jewett, Steven R Lopushinsky, Shabbir M. H Alibhai
Correspondence
Corrections
Robert Cockburn, Paul N Newton, E. Kyeremateng Agyarko, Dora Akunyili, Nicholas J White
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