What “Race” Cannot Tell Us about Access to Kidney Transplantation

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (2):134-141 (2002)
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Abstract

Despite a growing awareness within American biomedicine and bioethics that the social category “race” is of limited use in describing patients, some fields of medicine continue to use it interchangeably with, or instead of, the term “ethnicity.” Doing so reflects the assumption that social categories have a basis in physiology

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