Author:
Van Staden W,Nienaber A,Rossouw T,Turner A,Filmalter C,Mercier A E,Nel J G,Bapela B,Beetge M M,Blumenthal R,Castelyn C D V,De Witt T W,Dlagnekova A G,Kotze C,Mangwane J S,Napoles L,Sommers R,Sykes L,Van Zyl W B,Venter M,Uys A,Warren N
Abstract
This article provides ethical guidance on using race in health research as a variable or in defining the study population. To this end, a plain, non-exhaustive checklist is provided for researchers and research ethics committees, preceded by a brief introduction on the need for justification when using race as a variable or in defining a study population, the problem of exoticism, that distinctions pertain between race, ethnicity and ancestry, the problematic naming of races, and that race does not serve well as a presumed biological construct in genetic research.
Publisher
South African Medical Association NPC
Subject
Law,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Professions (miscellaneous),Medicine (miscellaneous)