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Pills for Prejudice: Implicit Bias and Technical Fix for Racism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

Jonathan Kahn
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 43 , Issue 2-3: Critical Race Theory & the Health Sciences , May 2017 , pp. 263 - 278
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