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Race, Ethnicity, and Class

Wade, Nicholas. "Race-based Medicine Continued..." New York Times, November 14, 2004.

Rotman, David. "Race and Medicine." Technology Review, April 2005.

Dreifus, Claudia. "A Sociologist Confronts 'the Messy Stuff'." New York Times, October 18, 2005.

Rutenberg, Jim, and Andy Newman. "City Officials and Rabbis Clash over Rite." New York Times, January 5, 2006.

Grady, Denise. "White Doctors, Black Subjects: Abuse Disguised as Research." New York Times, January 23, 2007.

Bakalar, Nicholas. "All Breast Cancer Patients Are Not Treated the Same." New York Times, January 23, 2007.

Whitford, Ben. "Who Gets the Organs?" Newsweek, November 28, 2005.

Kinzer, Stephen. "Hunter Tells Police He Was Threatened." New York Times, November 24, 2004.

Ruethling, Gretchen. "Rural vs. City Ways at Issue in a Wisconsin Murder Trial." New York Times, September 9, 2005.

Peck, Grant. "Hmong Tribesmen Surrender in Laos." Boston Globe, December 14, 2006.

Underwood, Anne, and Jerry Adler. "When Cultures Clash." Newsweek, April 25, 2005.

Bernstein, Nina. "For Subjects in Haiti Study, Free AIDS Care Has a Price." New York Times, June 6, 1999.

French, Howard W. "AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes." New York Times, October 9, 1997.

Groopman, Jerome. "In an AIDS Study, The Devil Is In The Details." New York Times, April 2, 2000.

Chamish, Barry. "Ringworm and Radiation." Israel Insider, August 19, 2004.

LaFraniere, Sharon. "After Apartheid: Heated Words About Rape and Race." New York Times, November 24, 2004.

Alvarez, Lizette. "Spreading Scandinavian Genes, Without Viking Boats." New York Times, September 30, 2004.

Bennett, Jessica. "It's Not Just White Girls." Newsweek, September 15, 2008.

Lacey, Marc. "A U.S. Trained Entrepreneur Becomes Voodoo's Pope." New York Times, April 5, 2008.

Smith, Craig S. "On Death Row, China's Source of Transplants." New York Times, October 18, 2001.

Gentleman, Amelia. "Kidney Thefts Shock India." New York Times, January 30, 2008.

McKinley, Jesse. "Surgeon Accused of Speeding a Death to Get Organs." New York Times, February 27, 2008.

Sims, Calvin. "Justice in Peru: Victim Gets Rapist for a Husband." New York Times, March 12, 1997.

Mydans, Seth. "Sentenced to Death, Rape Victim is Freed by Pakistani Court." New York Times, June 8, 2002.

Fisher, Ian. "Account of Punjab Rape Tells of a Brutal Society." New York Times, July 17, 2002.

Kolata, Gina. "Price of Donor Eggs Soars, Setting Off a Debate on Ethics." New York Times, February 25, 1998.

Sims, Calvin. "Using Gifts as Bait, Peru Sterilizes Poor Women." New York Times, February 15, 1998.

Singer, Emily. "Choosing Babies." Technology Review, March/April 2007.

Gentleman, Amelia. "India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood." New York Times, March 10, 2008.

Corbett, Sarah. "Patients Without Borders." New York Times, November 18, 2007.

Kamber, Michael. "Haiti's Wounds Overwhelm a Suffering Public Hospital." New York Times, November 29, 2004.

Wall, Norman M. "Stealing From the Poor to Care for the Rich." New York Times, December 14, 2005.

Cowley, Geoffrey. "Where Living Is Lethal." Newsweek, September 22, 2003.

Dugger, Celia W. "Rural Haitians are Vanguard in AIDS Battle." New York Times, November 30, 2003.

 

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