Colleagues and I have just published a letter to the editor in Journal of Internal Medicine, concerning an article that made a splash late this spring. (We wrote the letter soon after the original article appeared, but these things take time to see the light of day.) The letter points out six fallacies of racial essentialism that are all too common in medical research and practice.
Tsai, J., Cerdeña, J. P., Khazanchi, R., Lindo, E., Marcelin, J. R., Rajagopalan, A., Sandoval, R. S., Westby, A., & Gravlee, C. C. (2020). There is no “African American Physiology”: the fallacy of racial essentialism. Journal of Internal Medicine, 288(3), 368–370. doi:10.1111/joim.13153
