By James L. Curtis. 237 pp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2003. $40. ISBN 0-472-11298-8.
This unique and superbly accomplished contribution to the understandingof race, ethnic background, class, and opportunity in medicinewas written before the Supreme Court's landmark decision inJune 2003 preserving affirmative action at the University ofMichigan Law School (and, by implication, at all institutionsof graduate professional education). But this book presentsa far bolder, broader, and more powerful argument for the defenseof this still fiercely debated policy than that expressed inJustice Sandra Day O'Connor's majority opinion, which restedalmost entirely on the educationally and socially enrichingbenefits of diversity in the student body. Instead, James L.. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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