2005
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702005000200006
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Razões para banir o conceito de raça da medicina brasileira

Abstract: O conceito de 'raça' faz parte do arcabouço canônico da medicina, associado à idéia de que cor e/ou ancestralidade biológica são relevantes como indicadores de predisposição a doenças ou de resposta a fármacos. Essa posição decorre de uma visão tipológica de raças humanas. O baixo grau de variabilidade genética e de estruturação da espécie humana é incompatível com a existência de raças como entidades biológicas e indica que considerações de cor e/ou ancestralidade geográfica pouco ou nada contribuem para a pr… Show more

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“…The investigation of such biological mechanisms, possibly resulting from phenotypic features, would not mean an endorsement of genetic inheritance as the basis for racial classifications. The wide variability of humans' external physical characteristics, commonly used to describe racial groups, seems to reflect changes and adjustments, over the mil-lennia, to variations of climate and other environmental factors, as well as historical and social conditions 22,59,60,61 .…”
Section: Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The investigation of such biological mechanisms, possibly resulting from phenotypic features, would not mean an endorsement of genetic inheritance as the basis for racial classifications. The wide variability of humans' external physical characteristics, commonly used to describe racial groups, seems to reflect changes and adjustments, over the mil-lennia, to variations of climate and other environmental factors, as well as historical and social conditions 22,59,60,61 .…”
Section: Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This emphasizes the fact that in a population where there is a high degree of admixture and where superfi cial physical traits can vary with age and environmental factors, only the self-declaration of ethnicity is not a good method for ethnic classifi cation 6,20 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of various groups have been added to our native population 3,4,5 . This high rate of admixture made physical appearance characteristics such as skin and eye color, hair, shape of lips and nose not good indicators of the geographical origin of a Brazilian individual's ancestors 6 .…”
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“…É importante observar que no Brasil utiliza-se o termo raça como sinônimo de cor denotando um conjunto de características morfológicas que identificam um grupo de indiví-duos. Não se utiliza o termo raça no sentido biológico de subespécie, nem como nos padrões norte-americanos em que raça denota origem (Oliveira, 2004;Osório, 2003;Pena, 2005;Petruccelli, 2002;Rumjanek, 2004). O Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) utiliza categorias em seus Censos para identificação da pertença racial desde 1872 (data do primeiro Censo oficial brasileiro).…”
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