Race, ethnicity and health care/Research

  • Medicine and Society
    Jun 2021

    Historical Trauma and Descendants’ Well-Being

    Reeya A. Patel, MS and Donna K. Nagata, PhD
    This article addresses intergenerational trauma transmission, focusing on Japanese American and Southeast Asian American communities.
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(6):E487-493. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.487.
  • Original Research
    Mar 2021

    African American Nurses’ Perspectives on Genomic Medicine Research

    Rachele M. Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, Lauren M. Edgar, MSN Ed, RN, Tracey Johnson-Glover, MSN, RN, and Christine Y. Lu, PhD, MSc
    Recent popular interest in Henrietta Lacks has prompted interest in better engaging AA nurses and communities.
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(3):E240-251. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.240.
  • History of Medicine
    Feb 2021

    How Ancestral Trauma Informs Patients’ Health Decision Making

    Tina K. Sacks, PhD, Katie Savin, MSW, and Quenette L. Walton, PhD, LCSW
    Would you question health decisions made by a 37-year old Black woman whose great-grandfather died in the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee?
    AMA J Ethics. 2021;23(2):E183-188. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2021.183.
  • Medicine and Society
    Oct 2020

    Racialization as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity for Native Americans

    Vikas Gampa, MD, Kenneth Bernard, MD, MBA, and Michael J. Oldani, PhD, MS
    “Race” is a product of European-American views of phenotypic and cultural differences and continues to influence Native health decision making.
    AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(10):E874-881. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.874.
  • Original Research
    Feb 2019

    Can AI Help Reduce Disparities in General Medical and Mental Health Care?

    Irene Y. Chen, Peter Szolovits, PhD, and Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD
    As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.
    AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(2):E167-179. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.167.
  • Medicine and Society
    Aug 2012

    Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity?

    Ramya Rajagopalan, PhD and Joan H. Fujimura, PhD
    Developing technologies for personalized medicine may be misused to popularize the idea that one can infer a person’s genetic makeup from observer-defined or self-reported assignment to a race or ethnic group.
    Virtual Mentor. 2012;14(8):657-663. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2012.14.8.msoc1-1208.