UID:
edocfu_9959241309302883
Format:
1 online resource (192 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58901-232-1
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1-4356-2752-0
Content:
Do people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently? And, if they do, should they? Are doctors and researchers taking environmental perspectives into account when dealing with patients? If so, is it done effectively and properly? In African American Bioethics, Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. and Edmund D. Pellegrino bring together medical practitioners, researchers, and theorists to assess one fundamental question: Is there a distinctive African American bioethics? The book's contributors resoundingly answer yesùyet their responses vary. They discuss the co
Note:
"Conference titled 'Symposium on African American Perspectives in Bioethics and Second Annual Conference on Health Disparities,' held on September 23-24, 2004, at Georgetown University"--P. viii.
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Revisiting African American perspectives on biomedical ethics : distinctiveness and other questions / Jorge L.A. Garcia -- The moral weight of culture in ethics / Segun Gbadegesin -- Whitewashing black health : lies, deceptions, assumptions, and assertions : and the disparities continue / Annette Dula -- Race, equity, health policy, and the African-American community / Patricia A. King -- Religion and ethical decision making in the African American community : bioterrorism and the Black postal workers / Cheryl J. Sanders -- Personal narrative and an African American perspective on medical ethics / Ezra E.H. Griffith -- Does an African American perspective alter clinical ethical decision making at the bedside? / Reginald L. Peniston -- Race, genetics, and ethics / Kevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58901-163-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58901-164-3
Language:
English
