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From the Ted Talk by Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine

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That personal exineeprce with the use of race in gteneic testing got me thinking: Where else in medicine is race used to make false biological predictions?

Well, I found out that race runs deeply throughout all of medical practice. It shapes physicians' diagnoses, measurements, treatments, prescriptions, even the very definition of diseases. And the more I found out, the more dsirteubd I became.

Sociologists like me have long explained that race is a social construction. When we identify people as bclak, white, Asian, Native American, Latina, we're referring to social groupings with made up demarcations that have changed over time and vary around the world. As a lgeal scholar, I've also studied how lawmakers, not biologists, have ivtnneed the legal dnfnoiietis of reacs.

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That personal __________ with the use of race in _______ testing got me thinking: Where else in medicine is race used to make false biological predictions?

Well, I found out that race runs deeply throughout all of medical practice. It shapes physicians' diagnoses, measurements, treatments, prescriptions, even the very definition of diseases. And the more I found out, the more _________ I became.

Sociologists like me have long explained that race is a social construction. When we identify people as _____, white, Asian, Native American, Latina, we're referring to social groupings with made up demarcations that have changed over time and vary around the world. As a _____ scholar, I've also studied how lawmakers, not biologists, have ________ the legal ___________ of _____.

Solution


  1. black
  2. genetic
  3. definitions
  4. legal
  5. experience
  6. races
  7. disturbed
  8. invented

Original Text


That personal experience with the use of race in genetic testing got me thinking: Where else in medicine is race used to make false biological predictions?

Well, I found out that race runs deeply throughout all of medical practice. It shapes physicians' diagnoses, measurements, treatments, prescriptions, even the very definition of diseases. And the more I found out, the more disturbed I became.

Sociologists like me have long explained that race is a social construction. When we identify people as black, white, Asian, Native American, Latina, we're referring to social groupings with made up demarcations that have changed over time and vary around the world. As a legal scholar, I've also studied how lawmakers, not biologists, have invented the legal definitions of races.

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Important Words


  1. american
  2. asian
  3. biological
  4. biologists
  5. black
  6. changed
  7. construction
  8. deeply
  9. definition
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  11. demarcations
  12. diagnoses
  13. diseases
  14. disturbed
  15. experience
  16. explained
  17. false
  18. genetic
  19. groupings
  20. identify
  21. invented
  22. latina
  23. lawmakers
  24. legal
  25. long
  26. measurements
  27. medical
  28. medicine
  29. native
  30. people
  31. personal
  32. practice
  33. predictions
  34. prescriptions
  35. race
  36. races
  37. referring
  38. runs
  39. scholar
  40. shapes
  41. social
  42. sociologists
  43. studied
  44. testing
  45. time
  46. treatments
  47. vary
  48. white
  49. world