Tag: Virtual Mentor

  • Race: A Starting Place Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 16, Number 6 (June 2014) pages 472-478 Brooke A. Cunningham, MD, PhD Health status, access to and quality of care, and numerous social factors associated with health vary across racial groups. Many applaud the collection and use of race data to identify…

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • Personalizing Medicine: Beyond Race Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 628-634 Timothy Chang, MD-PhD Student University of Wisconsin, Madison McNearney TA, Hunnicutt SE, Fischbach M, et al. Perceived functioning has ethnic-specific associations in systemic sclerosis: another dimension of personalized medicine. J Rheumatol. 2009;36(12):2724-2732. Considering the explosion…

  • “Vulnerable” Populations—Medicine, Race, and Presumptions of Identity   Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 13, Number 2 (February 2011) pages 124-127 Karla F. C. Holloway, Ph.D., MLS, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law Duke University, Durham, North Carolina At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned sociologist William…