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ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2021

Bioethicists Should Be Helping Scientists Think About Race.

Camisha Russell

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Article in Journal of bioethical inquiry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Medical Mistrust and Enduring Racism in South Africa.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021
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  4. The Shifts in Human Consciousness.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021
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Camisha RussellDepartment of Philosophy, 1295 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403-1295, USA. camishar@uoregon.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3993-6626

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this essay, I argue that bioethicists have a thus-far unfulfilled role to play in helping life scientists, including medical doctors and researchers, think about race. I begin with descriptions of how life scientists tend to think about race and descriptions of typical approaches to bioethics. I then describe three different approaches to race: biological race, race as social construction, and race as cultural driver of history. Taking into account the historical and contemporary interplay of these three approaches, I suggest an alternative framework for thinking about race focused on how the idea of race functions socially. Finally, using assisted reproductive technologies as an example, I discuss how bioethicists and scientists might work together using this framework to improve not only their own but broader perspectives on race.

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BioethicsEthicistsHumansAssisted reproductive technologiesBioethicsRace

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PMID33415594
PMCPMC8043886

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