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African American Bioethics
![]() 192 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 Hardcover ISBN: 9781589011632 (1589011635) 192 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback ISBN: 9781589011649 (1589011643) eBook ISBN: 9781589012325 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection May 2007 LC: 2006031183 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews Contributors |
African American Bioethics
Culture, Race, and Identity
Lawrence J. Prograis Jr., MD, and Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Editors
Winner of the 2008 Illustrated Cover or Jacket, Large Nonprofit Publishers Category of the Washington Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards
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 yes—yet their responses vary. They discuss the continuing African American experience with bioethics in the context of religion and tradition, work, health, and U.S. society at large—finding enough commonality to craft a deep and compelling case for locating a black bioethical framework within the broader practice, yet recognizing profound nuances within that framework. As a more recent addition to the study of bioethics, cultural considerations have been playing catch-up for nearly two decades. African American Bioethics does much to advance the field by exploring how medicine and ethics accommodate differing cultural and racial norms, suggesting profound implications for growing minority groups in the United States. Lawrence J. Prograis Jr., MD, is senior scientist, Special Programs and Bioethics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health. Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, is the John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics Emeritus at Georgetown University. He is the coeditor of Jewish and Catholic Bioethics.
Reviews
"The contributors provide a compelling case for locating an African-American framework for bioethics. Practitioners, researchers, and theorists will find this book worth reading. There is no compendium on the subject like it."—New England Journal of Medicine "African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity represents an excellent contribution to the field of bioethics. It has implications for those who want to study further the social effects of health care and bioethics on other racial and ethnic non-dominant groups living in the United States and seek to access its health care delivery system."—Health Progress Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Culture and Bioethics: Where Ethics and Mores Meet Edmund D. Pellegrino Chapter 1. Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other Questions Jorge L. A. Garcia Chapter 2. The Moral Weight of Culture in Ethics Segun Gbadegesin Chapter 3. Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions, Assumptions and Assertions—And the Disparities Continue Annette Dula Chapter 4. Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American Community Patricia A. King Chapter 5. Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal Workers Cheryl J. Sanders Chapter 6. Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical Ethics Ezra E. H. Griffith Chapter 7. Does an African American Perspective Alter Clinical Ethical Decision Making at the Bedside? Reginald L. Peniston Chapter 8. Race, Genetics, and Ethics Kevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal Afterword: An African American's Internal Perspective on Biomedical Ethics Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr. Contributors Index Contributors Annette Dula, University of PittsburghKevin FitzGerald, SJ, Georgetown UniversityJ. L. A. Garcia, Boston CollegeSegun Gbadegesin, Howard UniversityEzra E. H. Griffith, MD, Yale UniversityPatricia A. King, Georgetown University Law CenterEdmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Georgetown UniversityReginald L. Peniston, MD, Chief of Surgery, James A. Haley Veterans' HospitalLawrence J. Prograis Jr., MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of HealthCharmaine D. M. Royal, Howard UniversityCheryl J. Sanders, Howard University |