Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science
Abstract
Racial disparities in health outcomes have recently become a flashpoint in the debate about the value of race as a biological concept. What role, if any, race has in the etiology of disease is a philosophically and scientifically contested topic. In this article, I expand on the insights of the new mechanistic philosophy of science to defend a mechanism discovery approach to investigating epidemiological racial disparities. The mechanism...
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Title
Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science
Published Date
Jul 9, 2020
Journal
Volume
35
Issue
4
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