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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10973
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine - United States; Minorities - Medical care; Health services accessibility - United States; Equality - Health aspects - United States; Discrimination in medical care
• Persona (resp. second.): GarciaRichard <1964->
• Note generali: EDI Collection.; Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: On race and medicine
• ISBN: 1-4422-4835-1; 1-4422-4836-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788290903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II