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Health:, Vol. 10, No. 3, 303-321 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1363459306064486
© 2006 SAGE Publications

Expanding research on the racial disparity in medical treatment with ideas from sociology

Jennifer Malat

University of Cincinnati, USA

While hundreds of studies document racial differences in the use of medical procedures in the United States, by comparison little is known about the causes of these differences. This gap in knowledge should serve as a call to sociologists who, drawing on their disciplinary tradition of studying inequality, could improve understanding of the disparity. This article offers suggestions about how medical sociologists in the USA might bring sociology to the study of racial disparities in medical treatment. The article begins by reviewing the existing approaches to understanding the racial disparity in medical treatment. After considering the extant research and its limits, the article goes on to describe how a few specific concepts from sociology - cultural capital, social networks, self-presentation and social distance, all framed in a race critical framework - and more diverse methodological approaches can advance studies of the racial disparity in medical treatment

Key Words: disparities • health care • medical sociology • race


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