Is research into ethnicity and health racist, unsound, or important science?

BMJ

Volumn 314, Issue 7096, 1997, Pages 1751-

  Bhopal, Raj ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SHORT SURVEY;

ALIENS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORICAL ASPECTS; INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIGMATIZATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH;

EID: 0030955988     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7096.1751     Document Type: Article

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