i need some helpful website about race-based medicine.
i am argueing that doctors are not being a racist for prescribing different dosage of medicine to different ethnic background.
2007-02-16 07:15:19 · 4 answers · asked by smile 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
search for the human genome project, you'll find plenty
2007-02-16 07:23:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was an extraoridinary study in the journal Science back in 2002, called "Genetic Structure of Human Populations" from Marcus Feldmen's group up at Stanford. This study explicitly addresses your question through the implications of its findings, however it is very advanced. It comes down to the fact that for epidemiological studies aimed at determining who in the population a particular drug works for, self-reported ancestry can be a useful parameter to address.
PS Science is the premier US journal for scholarly research articles in the sciences and one of the top two in the world.
2007-02-17 17:35:57 · answer #2 · answered by rgomezam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So long as the doctor is evaluating the entire patient, identifying genetic predispositions in prescrbing patterns is no more or less racist than advising fair-skinned patients to get less sun.
2007-02-16 07:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go 2 www.hi.com
2007-02-16 07:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋