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View article: Storylines of family medicine XI: professional identity formation—nurturing one’s own story
Storylines of family medicine XI: professional identity formation—nurturing one’s own story Open
Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators …
View article: Considerations, Caveats, and Suggestions for the Use of Polygenic Scores for Social and Behavioral Traits
Considerations, Caveats, and Suggestions for the Use of Polygenic Scores for Social and Behavioral Traits Open
Polygenic scores (PGS) are increasingly being used for prediction of social and behavioral traits, but suffer from many methodological, theoretical, and ethical concerns that profoundly limit their value. Primarily, these scores are derive…
View article: Racial, Gender, and Size Bias in a Medical Graphical Abstract Gallery: A Content Analysis
Racial, Gender, and Size Bias in a Medical Graphical Abstract Gallery: A Content Analysis Open
We recommend that journals develop standards for mitigating bias in the publication of graphical abstracts that (1) ensure diverse skin tone and gender representation, (2) mitigate weight bias, (3) avoid racial or ethnic essentialism, and …
View article: Resculpting Professionalism for Equity and Accountability
Resculpting Professionalism for Equity and Accountability Open
Recent controversies over the characteristics of "professionalism" and its enforcement by medical educators underscore the racialized and gendered norms implicit in this practice. In this essay, we describe the ways nebulous definitions of…
View article: Epigenetic citizenship and political claims-making: the ethics of molecularizing structural racism
Epigenetic citizenship and political claims-making: the ethics of molecularizing structural racism Open
Epigenetics has generated excitement over its potential to inform health disparities research by capturing the molecular signatures of social experiences. This paper highlights the concerns implied by these expectations of epigenetics rese…
View article: “We Need Health for All”: Mental Health and Barriers to Care among Latinxs in California and Connecticut
“We Need Health for All”: Mental Health and Barriers to Care among Latinxs in California and Connecticut Open
Latinx (im)migrant groups remain underserved by existing mental health resources. Past research has illuminated the complex factors contributing to this problem, including migration-related trauma, discrimination, anti-immigrant policies, …
View article: Experiences of Trauma and DNA Methylation Profiles among African American Mothers and Children
Experiences of Trauma and DNA Methylation Profiles among African American Mothers and Children Open
Potentially traumatic experiences have been associated with chronic diseases. Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation (DNAm), have been proposed as an explanation for this association. We examined the association of experiences of…
View article: Trainee Perspectives on Race, Antiracism, and the Path toward Justice in Kidney Care
Trainee Perspectives on Race, Antiracism, and the Path toward Justice in Kidney Care Open
Introduction In 1999, researchers introduced a Black race coefficient of 1.21 to the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) on the basis of the observation that participants who self-identified as Black had a 21% higher measured GFR a…
View article: The Interaction of Trauma Exposure and DNA Methylation on Blood Pressure Among Black Women in the InterGEN Study
The Interaction of Trauma Exposure and DNA Methylation on Blood Pressure Among Black Women in the InterGEN Study Open
Objective: Despite evidence that trauma exposure is linked to higher risk of hypertension, epigenetic mechanisms (such as DNA methylation) by which trauma potentially influences hypertension risk among Black adults remain understudied. Met…
View article: Race-Conscious Bioethics: The Call to Reject Contemporary Scientific Racism
Race-Conscious Bioethics: The Call to Reject Contemporary Scientific Racism Open
This article is referred to by:Looking Forward: A Response to Commentaries on "Race, Power and COVID-19: A Call for Advocacy within Bioethics"
View article: Assessment of Skin Phenotype Representation in a Popular Medical Licensing Educational Resource
Assessment of Skin Phenotype Representation in a Popular Medical Licensing Educational Resource Open
This cross-sectional study examines the representation of darker skin phenotypes in tools used by students in preparation for medical licensure testing.
View article: From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act
From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act Open
The brutalisation of Jacob Blake and murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others—coupled with horrifying statistics about the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black and Brown communities—…
View article: There is no ‘African American Physiology’: the fallacy of racial essentialism
There is no ‘African American Physiology’: the fallacy of racial essentialism Open
Click here to view the Letter to the Editor by Gower et al.