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Race, Medicine, and Social Justice: Pharmacogenetics, Diversity, and the Case of BiDil

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  • Sara R. Jordan

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In this article, I probe an example of high‐technology medicine as a case study in the problems of the regulation of advancing technology. Specifically, I address the implications of pharmacogenomics—an emerging form of population‐based health care intervention—for public policies designed to eliminate racial disparities in health. Using the case of BiDil, a historical precursor to pharmacogenetic technology, I offer a framework for further studies of high‐technology medicine in which policy analysis is part of a social review based on the justice standard of ex ante mutual advantage. It is the contention in this article that the most just and reasonable deployment of pharmacogenomics is as a compensatory tool to alleviate health disparities.

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  • Sara R. Jordan, 2008. "Race, Medicine, and Social Justice: Pharmacogenetics, Diversity, and the Case of BiDil," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 25(1), pages 53-69, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:25:y:2008:i:1:p:53-69
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00309.x
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