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Race-based medicine (RBM) or race-specific medicine asserts that race, understood as a biological reality and isolated from structural dynamics of discrimination, is the primary indicator for the predispositions of certain diseases. RBM is not a groundbreaking concept, but a recycled idea based out of the eugenics movement. Eugenics promoted specific social policies, ideologies, and biological classifications we ought not revive in the twenty first century.
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Johnson, K.A. (2019). Race-Based Medicine. In: Medical Stigmata. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2992-0_2
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