AMA Journal of Ethics^®

This article addresses intergenerational trauma transmission, focusing on Japanese American and Southeast Asian American communities.

Recent popular interest in Henrietta Lacks has prompted interest in better engaging AA nurses and communities.

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?

“Race” is a product of European-American views of phenotypic and cultural differences and continues to influence Native health decision making.

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

An attempt to investigate correlations between race, attitudes, and contraceptive use did not find meaningful associations between race and attitudes about birth control or pregnancy that could influence contraceptive choice.

Instead of using race as a shorthand for factors that directly influence health, researchers should investigate those factors themselves.

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.