Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics (RABE)
Director: Professor Michele Goodwin

Telephone: Office: 312/362-8340; Director: 312/362-8127
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Email: Michele Goodwin
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The Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics (RABE) began in 1999 and was formally inaugurated in 2002. The Center positions itself where law, medicine, social science, and humanities meet, and it strives to:

• Identify access barriers in health care systems among minority populations and

• Contribute to the shaping of public policy that will help eliminate those barriers

RABE is a training ground for future health care attorneys, advocates, and individuals in the medical profession needing the requisite tools to become skilled professionals in understanding the links between race, gender, and ethnicity and the delivery of legally sound medical care. The Center builds upon a network of attorneys, policymakers, practitioners, and activists while focusing on the health needs of minority and disenfranchised people. It benefits from having an intellectual locus in Chicago for continued research, critique, and policy development on a broad range of related topics. RABE highlights the interdisciplinary links between law, society, and medicine as they relate to the physical and emotional health of minority populations, and it promotes interdisciplinary research and collaboration.