User:J.birch2/sandbox/Racial naturalism
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Racial naturalism is a philosophical position regarding the ontology of human races. The racial naturalist maintains that human races are real biological kinds defined by objective patterns of genetic similarity and difference.[1] The naturalist assertion that races are natural, biological kinds effectively implies that the existence and the exact categorisation of races is independent of what anyone might say or think. This can be sharply contrasted with the opposing view held by social constructionists, who believe that races are social, rather than biological kinds. Even more diametrically opposed is racial eliminativism, a theory claiming that races are not real and racial classifications are fictions. Because they are no longer conceptually relevant and can even produce harm it would be better to abandon them. Racial naturalism fell out of favour in the second half of the 20th century, when a consensus formed that human races were not defined by objective patterns of genetic similarity and difference.[2] However, the view has attracted a new generation of defenders in the early 21st century, following the analysis of new genetic data from the Human Genome Diversity Project.[3] Notable defenders of the view include A. W. F. Edwards and Neven Sesardić.[4][5][1] In June 2005 Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine, also known as BiDil, became the first race-based drug approved by the FDA, to treat heart failure for Black patients. Critics have argued that prescribing medicines on the basis of a patient's race is scientifically flawed and there is no clear consensus among African American scholars about the societal consequences of race-based pharmaceuticals. [6]
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