On race and medicine : insider perspectives /

This collection brings together personal essays written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, physicians, and medical school deans. The contributors address the everyday circumstances of healthcare differences where race is concerned and shine light on the realities of race itself, on inequalit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Garcia, Richard, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Social medicine > United States.
Minorities > Medical care.
Health services accessibility > United States.
Equality > Health aspects > United States.
Discrimination in medical care.
Racism > United States.
Health and race.
Social medicine.
Social Medicine
Health Status Disparities
Racism
Minorités > Soins médicaux.
Services de santé > Accessibilité > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Santé et race.
Médecine sociale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Discrimination in medical care
Equality > Health aspects
Health and race
Health services accessibility
Minorities > Medical care
Social medicine
United States
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bebop : an intro / Richard Garcia
  • No accident / Brian D. Smedley
  • Explaining disparities : is it genes or environment? / Troy Duster
  • On meeting Richard Rodriguez / Richard Garcia
  • Geography of the dead / A. Perez
  • The patient in the room / Enrique D. Rigsby
  • Saying and doing white racism / Jennifer L. Pierce
  • Fred Sanford's people are from St. Louis / Richard Garcia
  • To what end, diversity? / Donna Elliott
  • Noblesse oblige / Jorge A. Girotti
  • In France, once / Myrtis Sullivan
  • The Nisei veteran played the ukulele / Sylvia Gates Carlisle
  • The businessman / Frederick P. Beavers
  • Good guys / Tim Degner
  • There is no Zeitgeist / Richard Garcia
  • Race and medicine / Richard Garcia.

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