Lyle Saunders

Lyle Saunders (born 1907) was an American sociologist and author renowned for his work on cultural differences in medical care among Spanish-speaking populations in the U.S. Southwest. His most notable book, Cultural Difference and Medical Care (1954), earned an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and he served as associate professor of preventive medicine and public health (sociology) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, authoring other works like Spanish-Speaking Americans and Mexican-Americans in the United States (1944) on ethnic relations and health disparities [Anisfield-Wolf, Russell Sage Foundation].