The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine

Little has been written 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 social mechanisms that shape their careers, from the role of the family to different educational trajectories and even the practice of medicine. Glenda M. Flores turns a careful eye to this diverse pan—ethnic group in an elite profession, observing how demographic charact...