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Modern Day Drapetomania: Calling Out Scientific Racism

Authors: Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, Latonya Riddle-Jones, MD, MPH, Nakia Allen, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 1/2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted structural racism and health inequity in American society. As the nation reckons with its history of racial injustice, the medical and scientific communities need to directly confront the legacy of scientific racism in research, medical education, clinical practice, and health policies. …

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Title: Modern Day Drapetomania: Calling Out Scientific Racism
Authors: Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD
Latonya Riddle-Jones, MD, MPH
Nakia Allen, MD
Publication date: 01-01-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-07163-z

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