Examples of race-based medicine in the following topics:
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- Race and health research, often done in the United States, has found both current and historical racial differences in the frequency, treatments, and availability of treatments for several diseases.
- Some diseases may also be influenced by genes that differ in frequency between groups, such as sickle-cell anemia, which occurs overwhelmingly among some black populations, although the significance in clinical medicine of race categories as a proxy for exact genotypes of individuals has been questioned.
- Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters that are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.
- In the United States, screening for sickle cell anemia is done on all newborns regardless of race.
- Discuss the role of race in terms of access to and quality of health care, especially for minorities
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- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- Race-based medicine is the term for medicines that are targeted at specific ethnic clusters, which are shown to have a propensity for a certain disorder.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- There is a controversy regarding race as a method for classifying humans.
- Discuss the health disparities in the United States based on race and the implications for racial minorities
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- Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine. " It may be based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence.
- Methods may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, or newly conceived approaches to healing.
- They feel that healthcare practices should be classified based solely on scientific evidence.
- Biology-based practices use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, vitamins, and other natural substances.
- Manipulative and body-based practices feature manipulation or movement of body parts, such as is done in chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation.
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- Debates continue in and among academic disciplines as to how race should be understood.
- In the face of the increasing rejection of race as a valid classification scheme, many social scientists have replaced the word race with the word "ethnicity" to refer to self-identifying groups based on shared religion, nationality, or culture.
- Many social scientists have also replaced the word race with the word "ethnicity" to refer to self-identifying groups based on beliefs concerning shared culture, ancestry and history.
- The social construction of race has developed within various legal, economic, and sociopolitical contexts, and may be the effect, rather than the cause of major race-related issues.
- The subtypes of the Mongoloid race are shown in yellow and orange tones, those of the Europid race in light and medium grayish green-cyan tones, and those of the Negroid race in brown tones.
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- People's understanding of "race" emerged long before we knew anything about genetics.
- There are very few biological differences between the races and there is no "race" gene or set of genes to speak of.
- The relationship between race and genetics has relevance for the ongoing controversies regarding race.
- Recent discoveries in genetics offer a means of categorizing race which is distinct from past methods, which were often based on very broad criteria corresponding to physical characteristics, such as skin color, and which do not correlate reliably with geographic ancestry.
- Rather, race is a social construct and a product of culture, not biology.
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- In the past, theorists have posited categories of race based on various geographic regions, ethnicities, skin colors, and more.
- It was assumed for centuries that race was based in biology and genetically distinguishable among different subgroups (e.g., African Americans, Caucasians, American Indians, etc.).
- Now, race is far more widely accepted to be a social construction and therefore not distinguishable based on biology alone.
- Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, according to different folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits.
- Interpret ''the ideology of race'' based on examples from the text
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- Census Bureau currently uses race and ethnicity as self-identification data items.
- In this system, the residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify and indicate what their ethnic origin is (e.g., Latino).
- The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be.
- British Police use a classification based on the ethnic background of British society, for example W1 (White-British), M1 (White and black Caribbean), and A1 (Asian-Indian).
- In many countries, such as France, the state is legally banned from maintaining data based on race, so the police issue wanted notices to the public that include labels like "dark skin complexion. "
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- Herbal medicine is an aspect of folk medicine that involves the use of gathered plant parts to make teas, poultices, or powders that purportedly effect cures.
- While potentially important as cultural tradition, folk medicine should not be considered a reliable or proven form of healthcare; anyone considering trying folk medicine should always consult with a scientifically trained doctor first while exploring ways that folk medicine may aid, enhance, or provide better options than scientifically based approaches (e.g., the herbs at the heart of aspirin use do not come with the same side-effects and potential blood and heart issues in later life that aspirin has).
- Western medicine approaches health care from two angles.
- The term alternative medicine is misleading, as these treatments have not been proven to be an effective alternative to regulated conventional medicine, but alternative medicine proponents point out that the same can be said (not proven, though often demonstrated to be probable) of Western Medicine.
- People who choose alternative or western medicines may think they are choosing a safe, effective medicine, while they may only be getting quack remedies.
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- A race is a human population that is believed to be distinct in some way from other humans based on real or imagined physical differences.
- Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and how those identities influence someone's position in social hierarchies (see identity politics).Ethnicity, while related to race, refers not to physical characteristics but social traits that are shared by a human population.
- Unlike race, ethnicity is not usually externally assigned by other individuals.
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- In the face of the increasing rejection of race as a valid classification scheme, many social scientists have replaced the word race with the word ethnicity to refer to self-identifying groups based on shared religion, nationality, or culture.The understanding of race as a social construct is well-illustrated by examining race issues in two countries, the U.S. and Brazil.
- Native Americans, on the other hand, were classified based on a certain percentage of Indian blood.
- Additionally, racial classification in Brazil, because it is based on self-classification and there are no objective criteria for what it means to belong to one race or another, is inconsistent about 21% of the time.
- Additionally, because race is self-determined and there is discrimination based on race (white are favored), Brazilians have a tendency to "self-lighten," or report their race as being lighter than an independent observer may suggest.
- Based on this knowledge individuals can be offered genetic testing based on their race, which can determine whether they are at increased risk to have a child with one of these conditions.