Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Edited by Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison. and Janet Golden, Rutgers University, Camden Growing criticism of the U.S. health care system is coming from consumers, politicians. the media, activists, and healthcare professionals. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine is a collection of books that explores these contemporary dilemmas from a variety of perspectives, among them political, legal. histori- cal, sociological, and comparative, and with attention to crucial dimensions such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture. For a list of titles in the series, see the last page of the book. Mapping "Race" Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research Edited by Laura E. Gomez and Nancy Lopez Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London l