Minorities in Science: The Challenge for Change in Biomedicine

I. Minorities in Science: Availability and Barriers That Affect Availability.- 1. Black Americans in the Sciences.- 2. Spanish-Surnamed Americans in Science: Availability and Barriers.- 3. The New Medical College Admission Test: New Dimensions in Assessment.- 4. The Graduate Record Examination and the Minority Student.- II. Problems of Minorities at Majority Institutions.- 5. Minority Students and the Political Environment: A Historical Perspective.- 6. Status and Prospects of Minority Students in Traditional Medical Schools.- 7. Sociocultural Factors as a Deterrent to Students' Pursuit of the Sciences.- 8. Problems of Minorities at Majority Institutions: A Student's Perspective.- 9. Medical Education and the Minority Student.- III. Public Policy and Biomedical and Behavioral Training: Effective Development of Existing Potential.- 10. Public Policy for Minority Self-Actualization: Present Realities and Future Possibilities.- 11. Some General Proposals for Increasing the Production of Minority Professionals in the Basic Sciences.- 12. National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Policies Affecting Minorities: An Outsider's View.- 13. An Informed Constituency with a Representative Bureaucracy: Health Policy and Black People.- 14. Better Health Sciences through Minority Participation: The Case for Community-Based Minority Medical Schools.- IV. Financial Support for Minority Scientific Activities in Education and Research.- 15. Funding of Minority Programs from the Private Sector: A Perspective from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.- 16. Graduate Fellowship Opportunities for Minorities Most Commonly Discriminated Against in Higher Education.- 17. National Institutes of Health Minority Research and Training Programs.- 18. Minority Programs Funded by the National Science Foundation.- 19. Minority Programs Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.- 20. The Importance and Impact of Funding Science Programs at Minority Institutions.- V. Affirmative Action: Myth or Reality?.- 21. Affirmative Action: A Congressional Perspective.- 22. A National Policy for Affirmative Action in Higher Education.- 23. Rules of the Game: An Essay in Two Parts.- VI. Special Training Programs for Minority Students in Science: College Level.- 24. Prehealth Summer Programs.- 25. Basic Science Enrichment Courses for Minority Medical Students.- 26. Undergraduate Research Training.- 27. The Harvard Health-Careers Summer Program.- 28. Postbaccalaureate Premedical Programs for Minority Students.- VII. Special Training Programs for Minority Students in Science: Precollege Level.- 29. Training at the Collegiate and Precollegiate Interface: STRIKE as an Example.- 30. Motivating Upper-Elementary-Level Mexican-American Students toward Science Careers.- 31. Ethnoscience: An Educational Concept.- 32. The Utility of a Piagetian Approach in Developing Precollegiate Science Programs for Minorities.- 33. Science Education for Minorities: A Bibliography: A Preliminary Report.- 34. Summary.- Name Index.