On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives - Hardcover

by Richard Garcia (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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.