LaPrincess C. Brewer, MD, MPH and Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Stressful life experience associated with racial and ethnic discrimination can have detrimental effects on the coronary and cardiovascular health of people in historically marginalized groups.
Physician-assisted doping of athletes has transformed high-performance sport into a chronically overmedicated subculture and spread so-called hormonal rejuvenation to the general public.
By embracing factors such as inter-individual interactions, environmental influences, and reciprocity and feedback, agent-based modeling and complex systems approaches enable researchers to understand why race is so strong a predictor of differences in health.