By Sana Loue. 158 pp. New York, Springer, 2006. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-387-32461-6.
A fair society promises equality in the pursuit of happiness.Yet society — often unwittingly — withholds thatpromise. Assessing Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Health isa study of how different nations have categorized their populationsby race, ethnicity, and gender. Sana Loue, a professor of bioethics,epidemiology, and law, makes the case that the categories nationsuse in their censuses, birth certificates, and many other recordsare not naturally occurring categories but are socially constructed,often shifting over time and reflecting current prejudices.In many countries, the census has focused on skin color, withconstructs intended to distinguish . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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