Now, a new and unexpected force in medicine is pulling back the covers. By taking a close look at small differences in people's genetic codes, researchers and drug companies are beginning to create racially based drugs and treatments.
Given the prospect of targeting treatment, some scientists argue that the subject at least ought not to be taboo. Even if race eventually proves to be a crude and insufficient means of understanding genetic differences, it can play an important interim role, they say. Others worry that these voices fail to capture the larger picture: how past claims of "scientific" race and ethnic differences, have been used to oppress, even kill, minorities.( Ben Harder, 2005)
According to Robin Marantz Hening:
BiDil, the first drug in America that's being niche-marketed to people of a particular race, our first ethnic medicine. BiDil, is on the leading edge of the emerging field of race-based pharmacogenomics. It signals a shift in perception, a new approach to......

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Title: Ethics In Medicine
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