Dorothy Roberts: Worries of bioracism

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As biotechnology allows for more specialized medicines to fight disease, should pharmaceuticals be developed based more upon skin color than other, more vital biological traits?

Legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that race is only a social construct, not a reliable biological definition.

In her book “Fatal Invention,” Roberts warns that the emerging field of personalized medicine, based upon old ideas of biological racial divides, could have the damaging effects.

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