Title: The Latino Patient, A Cultural Guide for Health Care Providers
Author: Nilda Chong
Publisher: John Murray Business Academic
ISBN-13: 978-1877864957
By 2030, Latinos will comprise about 20% of the U.S. population. More health professionals are recognizing the need to understand Latino cultural values and how these affect clinical encounters. This knowledge enhances communication and respectful, effective care. The Latino Patient explores Latino diversity, cultural values, health beliefs and practices, and communication strategies. The author presents a practice-oriented model guiding readers from greeting the patient to negotiating treatment. With hands-on guidance and real-life vignettes, this book is essential reading for physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, and other clinicians working with Latino populations.
Title: McGraw Hill's Complete Medical Spanish, Premium Fouth Edition
Authors: Joanna Ríos, José Fernández Torres & Tamara Ríos
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN-13: 978-1260467895
McGraw Hill’s Complete Medical Spanish goes far beyond a phrasebook or dictionary. This proven resource builds the skills and confidence needed to interact effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and families. With sample dialogs, exercises, and over 200 illustrations, it helps you: master 3,000+ medical terms; conduct interviews, exams, and give instructions in Spanish; and become culturally competent. New to this edition: expanded content on therapy, mental health, pandemics, and key assessments. Bonus: audio dialogs and 2,000 flashcards in the Language Lab app. Ideal for healthcare professionals with little or no Spanish-language experience.
Title: Caring for and Understanding Latinx Patients in Health Care Settings
Author: Laura Maria Pigozzi
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1785928093
This concise, instructive guide outlines challenges Latinx populations face in U.S. health care, including language barriers, unfamiliarity with the system, lack of insurance, access issues, monetary concerns, and fears surrounding undocumented immigrants. It shows how health care professionals and chaplains can provide support that respects Latinx cultural values. The guide offers advice on key sensitivities such as health disparities, the role of family, and spirituality and religion in Latinx culture. With case studies and practical tips, it improves cultural competency among non-Latinx care staff and provides tools that can be applied directly in practice.
Title: ¡Un doctor por favor!: Why We Need More Hispanic Physicians In The U.S., and Why You Should Be One Of Them
Author: Paola Mina-Osorio
Publisher: Paola Mina-Osorio
ISBN-13: 978-1735172804
Authored by an immigrant Hispanic doctor and scientist, ¡Un Doctor, Por Favor! was inspired by a Hispanic student told by her counselor she was “not college material.” This real-life story, followed throughout the book, reflects the challenges many young Hispanics face in pursuing medical careers. The book offers an overview of the complex health and educational issues affecting Hispanics in the U.S., combining current research with real-life struggles and successes. It features inspiring stories of Hispanic physicians who overcame adversity, showing what can be achieved with determination, courage, and perseverance.
Title: The Right to live in Health
Author: Daniel A. Rodríguez
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5973-2
Daniel A. Rodríguez’s history of a newly independent Cuba explores the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies had often served American colonial power, in Cuba they became key expressions of anticolonial nationalism. A younger generation of medical reformers—physicians, patients, and officials—viewed disease as a remnant of colonial rule and turned to medical science to guide Cuba toward independence. Rodríguez shows how medicine shaped republican Cuba’s governance, with citizens, including women and people of color, demanding quality care. He argues Latin America helped define citizens’ rights—especially health care—in the twentieth century.
Title: Surgery and Salvation
Author: Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7587-9
In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O’Brien traces the intersections of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the Spanish empire’s end through the post-revolutionary 1930s. She explores how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life evolved—from priests performing cesareans to save unborn souls, to eugenic sterilizations aimed at racial regeneration. O'Brien argues that today’s claims about fetal personhood are rooted in surgical force used against racialized women. She reveals how “salvation through surgery” embodied both medical and religious beliefs, turning Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race bodies into sites of racialized medical experimentation.
Title: Bioethics Reenvisioned: A Path toward Health Justice
Author: Nancy M.P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7158-1
Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Since its birth in the 1970s, the field has centered on autonomy, beneficence, and distributive justice—mostly within medical institutions. But the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change reveal urgent gaps: bioethics must now fully address health disparities and structural injustice. Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, and Larry R. Churchill argue for a broader view of justice, one that integrates insights from public health, epidemiology, and the social sciences. They call for deeper humility in ethical consulting, a more inclusive research agenda, and recognition of how global forces shape health outcomes.
Title: Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City
Author: Melissa Fuster
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6457-6
Melissa Fuster explores the many meanings of comida, from daily meals to cultural identity, through the voices of New Yorkers with Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican roots, along with the health professionals who serve them. She argues that health outcomes depend not just on food culture but also on structural factors like access to food, work, and healthcare. With high rates of diet-related disease in Hispanic Caribbean communities, Fuster applies an intersectional lens to show how nutritionists and eaters may racialize or misrepresent a cuisine's healthfulness or unhealthfulness when they ignore the broader economic and racial inequities of migration.
