ArticleMedical anthropology quarterly2013
Genes, race, and culture in clinical care: racial profiling in the management of chronic illness.
Article in Medical anthropology quarterly, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Physicians' Perceptions of Race and Engagement in Race-Based Clinical Practice: a Mixed-Methods Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Aspiring toward equitable benefits from genomic advances to individuals of ancestrally diverse backgrounds.American journal of human genetics · 2024Review
- Race-Based Care and Beliefs Regarding the Etiology of Racial Differences in Health Outcomes.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- A scoping review of guidelines for the use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry reveals widespread consensus but also points of ongoing disagreement.American journal of human genetics · 2022Article
- Polymorphisms of Pro-Inflammatory IL-6 and IL-1β Cytokines in Ascending Aortic Aneurysms as Genetic Modifiers and Predictive and Prognostic Biomarkers.Biomolecules · 2021Article
- Students' perceptions on race in medical education and healthcare.Perspectives on medical education · 2021Article
- Racialized Risk in Clinical Care: Clinician Vigilance and Patient Responsibility.Medical anthropology · 2019Article
- Intersectionality and Clinical Decision Making: The Role of Race.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2019Article
- "The Rowdy Ones:" Configurations of Difference in a Private Psychiatric Hospital.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2018Article
- Racialised prescribing: enacting race/ethnicity in clinical practice guidelines and in accounts of clinical practice.Sociology of health & illness · 2018Article
- Prioritizing diversity in human genomics research.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2018Review
- A Qualitative Analysis of How Anthropologists Interpret the Race Construct.American anthropologist · 2017Article
- "They Treat you a Different Way:" Public Insurance, Stigma, and the Challenge to Quality Health Care.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2017Article
- Physicians' anxiety due to uncertainty and use of race in medical decision making.Medical care · 2014Article
- Pharmacogenetics in primary care: the promise of personalized medicine and the reality of racial profiling.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2013Article
- "It's Killing Us!" Narratives of Black Adults About Microaggression Experiences and Related Health Stress.Global qualitative nursing researchArticle
- Changing Diagnostic and Treatment Criteria for Chronic Illness: A Critical Consideration of their Impact on Low-Income Hispanic Patients.Human organizationArticle
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Abstract
Race, although an unscientific concept, remains prominent in health research and clinical guidelines, and is routinely invoked in clinical practice. In interviews with 58 primary care clinicians we explored how they understand and apply concepts of racial difference. We found wide agreement that race is important to consider in clinical care. They explained the effect of race on health, drawing on common assumptions about the biological, class, and cultural characteristics of racial minorities. They identified specific race-based clinical strategies for only a handful of conditions and were inconsistent in the details of what they said should be done for minority patients. We conclude that using race in clinical medicine promotes and maintains the illusion of inherent racial differences and may result in minority patients receiving care aimed at presumed racial group characteristics, rather than care selected as specifically appropriate for them as individuals.
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