MITCHELL F. RICE is Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He has written extensively on black and minority health issues and is coeditor of Health Care Issues in Black America (Greenwood Press, 1987) and Contemporary Public Policy Perspectives and Black Americans (Greenwood Press, 1984) and co-compiler of Black American Health: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1987).
WOODROW JONES JR. is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean at Texas A & M University. His writings on the topics of black health have appeared in numerous periodicals, and he is the coeditor and co-compiler with Mitchell F. Rice, of Contemporary Public Policy Perspectives and Black Americans, Health Care Issues in Black America, and Black American Health: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1987).