Tag: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

  • The Problem of Race in Medicine Philosophy of the Social Sciences Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2001) pages 20-39 DOI: 10.1177/004839310103100102 Michael Root, Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain…