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By Sybil M. Lassiter. 197 pp. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1995. $65. ISBN 0-313-29140-3.

Lassiter has attempted, somewhat naively and with an overall result that seems unacceptable, to foster increased awareness of cultural differences among white, middle-class health care professionals by summarizing key information about various cultural groups in American society. After an introduction that explains the rationale for the book, there are 15 chapters, each devoted to a particular cultural group selected because it accounts for a large minority of the U.S. population or large numbers of recent immigrants.

Some chapters describe cultural groups designated by the Census Bureau as racial or ethnic minority populations: African, Haitian, Chinese, East Indian, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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