{"id":26468,"date":"2012-11-14T15:33:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26468"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:33:50","slug":"msu-scholar-says-medical-recommendations-should-go-beyond-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26468","title":{"rendered":"MSU scholar says medical recommendations should go beyond race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.msu.edu\/story\/msu-scholar-says-medical-recommendations-should-go-beyond-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSU scholar says medical recommendations should go beyond race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.msu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State University News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-23<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:andy.mcglashen@cabs.msu.edu?subject=MSU%20News&amp;body=Title: MSU%20scholar%20says%20medical%20recommendations%20should%20go%20beyond%20race%0A%0APublished Date: Oct. 23, 2012 %0A\" target=\"_blank\">Andy McGlashen<\/a><\/strong>, Media Communications<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"602\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/news.msu.edu\/media\/photo\/2012\/10\/0e156a15-c239-44a9-8a64-07e02b65ff82.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.msu.edu\/media\/photo\/2012\/10\/0e156a15-c239-44a9-8a64-07e02b65ff82.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sean Valles, assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Philosophy, says race-based medical advice is often misleading and harmful. 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Kohuth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2014 Medical organizations that make race-based recommendations are misleading some patients about health risks while reinforcing harmful notions about race, argues a Michigan State University professor in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26433\" target=\"_blank\">new paper published in the journal <em>Preventive Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile some racial groups are on average more prone to certain diseases than the general population, they contain \u201cislands\u201d of lower risk that medical professionals should acknowledge, said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu\/faculty\/bios\/user.cfm?UserID=89\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Valles<\/a>, assistant professor in MSU\u2019s Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Philosophy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;By glossing over the varying degrees of health risk within a racial group, medical recommendations imply that all members of each race are biologically the same as one another and different from others \u2013 a view that promotes prejudice and discrimination, according to Valles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/news.msu.edu\/story\/msu-scholar-says-medical-recommendations-should-go-beyond-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSU scholar says medical recommendations should go beyond race Michigan State University News 2012-10-23 Andy McGlashen, Media Communications Sean Valles, assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Philosophy, says race-based medical advice is often misleading and harmful. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. 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