The Medicalization of Race: Scientific Legitimization of a Flawed Social Construct

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 675-679

  Witzig, Ritchie ^a  

^a NONE   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RACE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDICINE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030587798     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-8-199610150-00008     Document Type: Review

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