title: Legal constraints on the use of race in biomedical research: toward a social justice framework.
abstract: This article addresses three questions concerning the legal regulation of the use of race as a category in biomedical research: how does the law currently encourage the use of race in biomedical research?; how might the existing legal framework constrain its use?; and what should be the law's approach to race-based biomedical research? It proposes a social justice approach that aims to promote racial equality by discouraging the use of "race" as a biological category while encouraging its use as a socio-political category to understand and investigate ways to eliminate disparities in health status, access to health care, and medical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University School of Law, USA.
authors.forename: Dorothy E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics*; D011287:Prejudice; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D012935:Social Justice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States