Using race in medicine

Racial categories are currently ubiquitous in medicine and medical research. How are these categories determined? Is there uniformity from one study to another?

Additional Resources:

• When should medicine talk about race?: Part 1, Scientific American
• When should medicine talk about race?: Part 2, Scientific American

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