Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 169 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1589011643
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9781589011649
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9781589011632
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1589011635
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"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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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Culture and Bioethics:Where Ethics and Mores Meet; Chapter 1 Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other Questions; Chapter 2 The Moral Weight of Culture in Ethics; Chapter 3 Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions, Assumptions, and Assertions-and the Disparities Continue; Chapter 4 Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American Community; Chapter 5 Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal Workers
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Chapter 6 Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical EthicsChapter 7 Does an African American Perspective Alter Clinical Ethical Decision Making at the Bedside?; Chapter 8 Race, Genetics, and Ethics; Afterword: An African American's Internal Perspective on Biomedical Ethics; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589011649
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe African American Bioethics : Culture, Race, and Identity
Language:
English
