Racial stereotyping found in US death certificates
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Death by homicide, the victim is probably black. By cirrhosis, the decedent is likely Native American. These stereotypes have small but clear effects on the racial classifications used to calculate official vital statistics, according to a new study by sociologists at the University of Oregon and University of California, Irvine...