Dorothy Roberts: What's Race Got to Do with Medicine?
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Friday, February 10, 2017
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Dorothy Roberts speaks on the TED stage at TEDMED 2015.
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Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Getting Better
About Dorothy Roberts' TED Talk
Doctors often take a patient's race into account when making a diagnosis--or ruling one out. Professor Dorothy Roberts says this practice is both outdated and dangerous.
About Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is a social justice advocate and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She directs the program on Race, Science, and Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Roberts is the author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.
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