Race and Trust in Biomedical Research

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Using the ethical principle of social justice, this course will provide an overview of society’s role in promoting or ensuring individual and collective health through biomedical research. The course will examine how attitudes toward race and difference have impacted protections of basic human rights in biomedical research, document past and present abuses in biomedical research, and examine how lack of trust stemming from past abuses impacts the ability to attain, maintain, and promote well-being through biomedical research.