On Race and Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

Insider Perspectives
Redaktion: Garcia, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological "racial" differences in the discourse of health disparities. On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives is a collection of enlightening personal essays written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, physicians, and medical school deans. They invite readers to evaluate disparities differently when considering race in American healthcare. They address the very real, everyday circumstances of healthcare differences where race is concerned, and shine light on the realities of race itself, inequalities in healthcare, and on the very way these American complexities can be discussed and considered. This is not another chronicle of studies cataloging differences in health care based on race. The essays are narrated from practical and personal stances examining disparate health between the races. Decreasing inequalities in health for racial minorities, who are sicker in so many areas-diabetes, heart disease, stage of cancer, etc.-is financially good for everyone. But understanding health inequalities in race is of even greater human importance. How race intersects with medicine is striking given the existence of racial issues throughout the rest of American history. These authors attempt to explain and explore the truth about health disparities, which is necessary before we can turn our national attention toward eliminating differences in health based on race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442248366
• Artikelnr.: 43975764

Autorenporträt

Richard Garcia, MD, a pediatrician, grew up in Stockton, California. His personal essays on race and medicine appear in academic, medical, and policy journals. He is the editor of On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives, a collection of interdisciplinary personal essays on health disparities.

Inhaltsangabe

Bebop - an Intro
Richard Garcia
PART I: Health Disparities
1: No Accident
Brian D. Smedley
2: Explaining Disparities: Is it Genes or Environment?
Troy Duster
PART II: Personal Essay
3: On Meeting Richard Rodriguez
Richard Garcia
4: Geography of the Dead
A. Perez
5: The Patient in the Room
Enrique D. Rigsby
PART III: Race and Medicine
6: Saying and Doing White Racism
Jennifer L. Pierce
7: Fred Sanford's People are from St. Louis
Richard Garcia
8: To What End, Diversity?
Donna Elliott
9: Noblesse Oblige
Jorge A. Girotti
10: In France, Once
Myrtis Sullivan
PART IV: The Present
11: The Nisei Veteran Played the Ukulele
Sylvia Gates Carlisle
12: The Businessman
Frederick P. Beavers
13: Good Guys
Tim Degner
14: There is no Zeitgeist
Richard Garcia
15: Race and Medicine
Richard Garcia