Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Minoritized populations face exclusion across contexts from politics to welfare to medicine. In medicine, exclusion manifests in substantial disparities in practice and in outcome. While these disparities arise from many sources, the interaction between institutions, dominant-group behaviors, and minoritized responses shape the overall pattern and are key to improving it. We apply the theory of exclusion cycles to medical practice, the collection of medical big data, and the development of artificial intelligence in medicine. These cycles are both self-reinforcing and other-reinforcing, leading to dismayingly persistent exclusion. The interactions between such cycles offer lessons and prescriptions for effective policy.

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This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Price, W. Nicholson II. Bracic, Ana, Shawneequa L. Callier, and W. Nicholson Price II. "Exclusion Cycles: Reinforcing Disparities in Medicine." Science 377, no. 6611 (2022): 1158-1160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2788


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