Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and "Culture Talk" in the Health Sciences.
Am J Law Med
; 43(2-3): 225-238, 2017 May.
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| ID: mdl-29254467
ABSTRACT
"The price of culture is a Lie." 1 This Article advances a critical race approach to the health sciences by examining "culture talk" as a discursive repertoire that attributes distinct beliefs, behaviors, and dispositions to ethno-racialized groups. Culture talk entails a twofold process of obfuscation - concealing the social reality of the people it describes and hiding the positionality of those who employ cultural generalizations. After tracing how culture talk circulates and reproduces racist narratives in and beyond the health sciences, I examine how cultural competency training in medical schools and diversity initiatives in stem cell research use the idiom of culture to manage and manufacture group differences. From culturing cells in the lab to enculturing people in the clinic, I apply the concept of coproduction to argue that culture talk is a precondition and product of scientific knowledge construction.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Relações Raciais
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Justiça Social
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Estereotipagem
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Características Culturais
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Grupos Raciais
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article