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| Kevin Alfred Strom |
 Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:15 pm |
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http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=928
Ethnopsychopharmacology: A New Field
Report; Posted on: 2003-10-27 20:28:06 [ Printer friendly ]
Ethnopsychopharmacology is a relatively new field, of great
potential benefit to patients, yet its practitioners must choose
their words very, very carefully to avoid letting out too much of
the truth. That's because -- shhh, quiet now! -- it involves the
different treatments needed by members of different racial groups
because -- lean close while I whisper -- such groups are genetically
different in ways that impact their medical needs. Dr. Steven
Boyages (pictured), head of Australia's Western Sydney Area Health
Services, says "It is a frontier, in a sense. We are trying to
decide levels of risk."
"The benefit for all of us from this genetic research is how we can
tailor treatment to the individual, rather than taking the
blunderbuss approach to drugs."
Dr. Boyages gives examples of racial groups with different medical
needs: "Ashkenazi Jewish women had a higher risk of a certain gene
mutation that could lead to breast cancer, and... Greek Cypriots and
some Asian communities were more prone to the blood disorder
thalassemia."
He states that, in the future, patients will be asked more questions
about their ethnic backgrounds, and that this approach will result
in better health care for members of all different racial groups.
This is analagous to solving the racial problems of society at large
-- telling the truth about racial differences in crime and
intelligence, for example, will lead to a rational and scientific
appraisal of racial problems and is much more likely to lead to a
solution than clinging to obviously false "moral" ideas like the
"equality" of the races.
He also stated that "ethnic genetic links to other diseases such as
diabetes, which is particularly prevalent among Aborigines and
people of Pacific islander, Maltese, Indian and Sri Lankan descent,
was still poorly understood and needed more research. ...In the
human genome we know there are no absolute differences between
races, but there are subtle genetic differences." Ah, but those
subtle differences make all the difference in the world -- and not
just in health care, Dr. Boyages!
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Source: Lisel
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