Race, ethnicity, culture, and science
BMJPublished 30 July 1994Open access
Kwame McKenzie, Natasha S. Crowcroft
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Signs of disease, response to treatment, and the use of services are increasingly being explained in ethnic or racial terms, and from next April providers in the NHS must collect “ethnic data.”
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