Re: Race Based Medicine Arrives

In article <emangh$162p$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Re: message below...

It is only for ECONOMIC reasons -- vis a vis, it would cost a
hell of a lot of money to do a full physiological and genetic evaluation on
each individual (and each specific kind of mutagenic pathology within that
individual, where applicable) pursuant to arriving at the optimal medical
protocol, procedure, choice of pharmaceuticals or dosages are best fitting.

No, it has a lot more to do with the lack of knowledge and technology than
it does with economy. Not only we can't sequence every human being
in the world but we also can't yet make much sense of it, should such
information be available.

When complete information is lacking, one can still get some useful
information from proxy knowledge. "Race" is just a proxy to a set of
genetic markers (the point aptly demonstrated by numerous papers
in the recent years). In that sense, racial categorization remains
practically useful - as are any other biological abstractions like
(sub)species, genera, ect.

If I were a member of a stereotypic category of which most members are dead
by the time they are eighty, and I were ninety-one, and healthy... I would
resent being treated by physicians and morticians as though the only proper
way to treat members of my "research population" indicated I was long
overdue for, and therefore in immediate need of being embalmed.

That imaginarty situation suggests that you would be dealing with
idiot physicians and morticians. In real life, I doubt most of them
can't grasp concept distribution.

DK

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