Russell, Camisha2022-06-092022-06-092021Russell, Camisha. “Bioethicists Should Be Helping Scientists Think About Race.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 18 (2021): 109 - 111.https://hdl.handle.net/1794/271953 pages.In this essay, I argue that bioethicists have a thus-far unfulfilled role to play in helping life scientists, including medical doctors and researchers, think about race. I begin with descriptions of how life scientists tend to think about race and descriptions of typical approaches to bioethics. I then describe three different approaches to race: biological race, race as social construction, and race as cultural driver of history. Taking into account the historical and contemporary interplay of these three approaches, I suggest an alternative framework for thinking about race focused on how the idea of race functions socially. Finally, using assisted reproductive technologies as an example, I discuss how bioethicists and scientists might work together using this framework to improve not only their own but broader perspectives on race.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USracebioethicsassisted reproductive technologyArticle