Racial profiling
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The author wants to delineate the shape of moral debate about racial profiling. He makes distinction between police abuse, disproportionate use of race in profiling, and use of race as information-carier for investigative purposes . By f ocusing on the discussion on use of race as information-carier for investigative purposes, the author invites more philosophical reflection on this subject.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2004
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Global health and the scientific research agenda
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Diseases that contribute to the global burden of death are not well-aligned with the dominant directions in biomedical research. This misalignment, underwrites an obligation for individual researchers to reorient their inquiries, and for the research institutions to alter their priorities
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2004
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Why racial profiling is hard to justify: A response to Risse and Zeckhauser
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Risse and Zeckhauser offer a qualified defense of racial profiling in a racist society such as the contemporary United States of America. The difficult causal and interpretive judgments necessary to describe and evaluate the harm of racial profiling are stressed.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2005
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