caa a22 4500 445359455 CHVBK 20180317142910.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10892-010-9100-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10892-010-9100-0 Wasserman David Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA aut Is Racial Profiling More Benign in Medicine Than Law Enforcement? [Elektronische Daten] [David Wasserman] It might seem that racial profiling by doctors raised few of the same concerns as racial profiling by police, immigration, or airport security. This paper argues that the similarities are greater than first appear. The inappropriate use of racial generalizations by doctors may be as harmful and insulting as their use by law enforcement officials. Indeed, the former may be more problematic in compromising an ideal of individualized treatment that is more applicable to doctors than to police. Yet doctors, unlike police, should not attempt to ignore race altogether. Race and ethnicity are associated with the geography of disease, with social and cultural factors relevant to disease, and, to some extent, with genetic predispositions to disease. Moreover, greater attention to the distinctive health conditions of certain racial and ethnic groups is necessary to make up for past neglect. But it will be a tricky business to steer a middle course between a naïve, reckless, or dogmatic color blindness and a stereotype-driven overreliance on race and ethnicity. In trying to steer such a course, the doctor can only hope for the day when a combination of more individualized genomic medicine and greater social equality will make it possible for her to pay less attention to race and ethnicity without detriment to her patients' health. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Ethnicity nationallicence Individualized treatment nationallicence Law enforcement nationallicence Medicine nationallicence Racial profiling nationallicence Stereotyping nationallicence Stigmatization nationallicence The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/1-2(2011-06-01), 119-129 1382-4554 15:1-2<119 2011 15 10892 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-010-9100-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-010-9100-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wasserman David Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Ethics Springer Netherlands 15/1-2(2011-06-01), 119-129 1382-4554 15:1-2<119 2011 15 10892 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer