The Weight of the White Coat

Latinos Navigating American Medicine

Glenda M. Flores (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

289 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40921-7 (ISBN)

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Few people know much about Latina/o physicians as students, people, or workers in a high-skill occupation in the United States. The Weight of the White Coat traces the life stages that Latina/o physicians follow and the mechanisms that disadvantage or advantage them throughout their careers, from the family to the practice of medicine. Glenda M. Flores turns a careful, considered eye to this pan-ethnic group with heterogeneous characteristics in an elite profession, observing how demographic characteristics such as gender and ethnicity act like cumulative weights in their coat pockets, producing hindrances for some—thus limiting their advancement—and elevating others as they provide care in poor and wealthy communities. Here, the status of Latina/o doctors provides a unique lens for examining the polyvalent weight of physicianhood within the heterogeneous and still unsettled contours of Latinidad.

Glenda M. Flores is Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.4.2025
Zusatzinfo	3 b-w illustrations, 5 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-40921-3 / 0520409213
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40921-7 / 9780520409217
Zustand	Neuware