Looking at the world through “race”-colored glasses: The fallacy of ascertainment bias in biomedical research and practice

Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 39-52

  Graves, Joseph L ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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