{"id":6625,"date":"2013-03-22T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2015-11-21T22:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T22:33:51","slug":"%e2%80%9cracial-profiling%e2%80%9d-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6625","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRacial profiling\u201d in Medicine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While \u201cracial profiling\u201d in medicine has generated significant discussion in medical and bioethics circles, it has thus far gained relatively little attention in legal literature. This Article aims to develop the discourse concerning this important topic. It argues that \u201crace-based\u201d medicine is an inappropriate and perilous approach. The argument is rooted partly in the fact that the concept of \u201crace\u201d is elusive and has no reliable definition in medical science, the social sciences, and the law. \u00a0Does \u201crace\u201d mean color, national origin, continent of origin, culture, or something else? <strong>What about the millions of Americans who are of mixed ancestral origins\u2014to what \u201crace\u201d do they belong?<\/strong> To the extent that \u201crace\u201d means \u201ccolor\u201d in colloquial parlance, should physicians decide what testing to conduct or treatment to provide based simply on their visual judgment of the patient\u2019s skin tone? \u201cRace,\u201d consequently, does not constitute a valid and sensible foundation for research or therapeutic decision-making.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sharona Hoffman<\/strong>. \u201c<a title=\"Permanent link to \u201cRacially-Tailored\u201d Medicine Unraveled\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Racially-Tailored\u2019 Medicine Unraveled<\/a>,\u201d<em>American University Law Review<\/em>.\u00a02005, Volume 55, Number\u00a02, pages 395-452. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aulawreview.org\/pdfs\/55\/55-2\/hoffman.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aulawreview.org\/pdfs\/55\/55-2\/hoffman.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While \u201cracial profiling\u201d in medicine has generated significant discussion in medical and bioethics circles, it has thus far gained relatively little attention in legal literature. This Article aims to develop the discourse concerning this important topic. It argues that \u201crace-based\u201d medicine is an inappropriate and perilous approach. The argument is rooted partly in the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2234,2770],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-american-university-law-review","tag-sharona-hoffman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","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=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44096,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/44096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}