African American bioethics : culture, race, and identity / / Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr., Edmund D. Pellegrino, editors.

• Author: Symposium on African American Perspectives in Bioethics Georgetown University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Prograis, Lawrence.; Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-; ProQuest (Firm); Conference on Health Disparities (2nd : 2004 : Georgetown University)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxi, 169 p.
• Notes: "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.

Table of Contents

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.