Bioethicists Should be Helping Scientists Think About Race
| dc.contributor.author | Russell, Camisha | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-09T00:37:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-09T00:37:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | 3 pages. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Russell, Camisha. “Bioethicists Should Be Helping Scientists Think About Race.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 18 (2021): 109 - 111. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27195 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | race | en_US |
| dc.subject | bioethics | en_US |
| dc.subject | assisted reproductive technology | en_US |
| dc.title | Bioethicists Should be Helping Scientists Think About Race | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |