{"id":20528,"date":"2012-02-11T05:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2012-02-11T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T06:35:39","slug":"panel-to-discuss-racism-and-medical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20528","title":{"rendered":"Panel to discuss racism and medical issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2012\/02\/panel_to_discuss_racism_and_medical_issues\" target=\"_blank\">Panel to discuss racism and medical issues<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Bruin<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<br \/>\n2012-02-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ariana Ricarte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a <a href=\"http:\/\/happenings.ucla.edu\/lectures\/event\/60917\" target=\"_blank\">panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, called \u201cRace in Medicine: A Dangerous Prescription,\u201d will discuss disparities between people of different races in the health care system and the ways a patient\u2019s ethnicity can affect decisions made by doctors and insurance companies. The event is hosted by UCLA\u2019s Mixed Student Union, a student group founded in 2010 that aims to provide a safe and open environment for people of multiracial and multiethnic heritage, said chairwoman Camila Lacques.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will go over topics such as the role of ethnicity in prescription medicine and bone marrow and stem cell transplants. When it comes to transplants, multiracial people have a more difficult time finding matches because of their unique genetic composition, said panelist Athena Asklipiadis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[Note by Steven F. Riley: <em>Everyone<\/em>\u2014except their identical twin\u2014has an &#8220;unique genetic composition.&#8221;\u00a0 Race is a social, not biological construction and as such, is not linked to genetics. Please read <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/ipr\/people\/roberts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dorothy Roberts<\/strong><\/a><strong> excellent (and sobering) monograph on race and medicine titled, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=10863\" target=\"_blank\">Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/em> for more information.]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\">G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>, a panelist at Saturday\u2019s event and a sociology professor at UC Santa Barbara, said he plans to focus on the positive and negative images applied to multiracial people, as well as talk about the issue in terms of genetic variety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people need to step out of mono-racial thinking,\u201d Daniel said. \u201cWe need to see the connections we have with each other, whether we like it or not.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybruin.com\/index.php\/article\/2012\/02\/panel_to_discuss_racism_and_medical_issues\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panel to discuss racism and medical issues The Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Ariana Ricarte The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]. The panel, called \u201cRace in Medicine: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,13,6,20],"tags":[9595,9597,3032,1272,142,9596,4106],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-usa","tag-ariana-ricarte","tag-athena-asklipiadis","tag-daily-bruin","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-the-daily-bruin","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}