Dealing With the Reality of Race and Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Based Argument in Favor of Race-Based Genetics Research

Malinowski, Michael J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.975998

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Dealing With the Reality of Race and Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Based Argument in Favor of Race-Based Genetics Research

Michael J. Malinowski

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center

March 23, 2007

Houston Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 5, 2009

Abstract:
This article challenges the work of several law scholars with arguments based in bioethics, research pragmatism, and genetic science. The article concludes that proposals to stretch U.S. antidiscrimination jurisprudence to regulate away race and ethnicity in genetics research are misguided at best.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 59

Keywords: genetics, race, ethnicity, medical, biotechnology, bioethics

JEL Classification: L10, L18, K32

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Date posted: April 1, 2007 ; Last revised: March 23, 2013

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Malinowski, Michael J., Dealing With the Reality of Race and Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Based Argument in Favor of Race-Based Genetics Research (March 23, 2007). Houston Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 5, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=975998 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.975998

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