Tag: Richard S. Garcia

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…

  • The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…

  • 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.