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Edited by Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson. 764 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 2003. $79.95. ISBN 0-309-08532-2.

The life expectancy of members of most minority groups in the United States is shorter than it is for white Americans. For example, the gap in life expectancy between black Americans and white Americans is about six years. Against this bleak backdrop, a group of scholars assembled by the Institute of Medicine has taken on the issue of racial disparities in health care. In Unequal Treatment, they deal with several questions. In the United States, are there disparities in treatment between patients who are members of minority groups and those who are not, when both groups have similar access to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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