On race and medicine : insider perspectives / edited by Richard Garcia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia, Richard, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--United States.

Social medicine.

Minorities--Medical care.

Minorities.

Health services accessibility--United States.

Health services accessibility.

Equality--Health aspects--United States.

Equality.

Discrimination in medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Health disparities exist between races in America. This important collection of interdisciplinary personal essays considers what neither social science nor medicine, alone, can tell us about the unequal health outcomes of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Bebop-an Intro; Part I: Health Disparities; Chapter One: No Accident; Chapter Two: Explaining Health Disparities; Part II: The Personal Essay; Chapter Three: On Meeting Richard Rodriguez; Chapter Four: Geography of the Dead; Part III: Race and Medicine; Chapter Five: The Patient in the Room; Chapter Six: Saying and Doing White Racism; Chapter Seven: Fred Sanford's People Are from St. Louis; Chapter Eight: To What End, Diversity?; Chapter Nine: Noblesse Oblige; Chapter Ten: In France, Once; Part IV: Toward Solutions; Chapter Eleven: The Nisei Veteran Played the Ukulele

Chapter Twelve: The BusinessmanChapter Thirteen: Good Guys; Chapter Fourteen: There Is No Zeitgeist; Chapter Fifteen: Race and Medicine; Bibliography; Contributing Authors

Notes:

EDI Collection.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: On race and medicine : insider perspectives.

ISBN:

1-4422-4835-1

1-4422-4836-X