African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity

Contents

Acknowledgments viii Introduction Culture and Bioethics: Where Ethics and Mores Meet ix Edmund D. Pellegrino Chapter 1 Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other Questions 1 Jorge L. A. Garcia Chapter 2 The Moral Weight of Culture in Ethics 25 Segun Gbadegesin Chapter 3 Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions,Assumptions, and Assertions—and the Disparities Continue 47 Annette Dula Chapter 4 Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American Community 67 Patricia A. King Chapter 5 Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal Workers 93 Cheryl J. Sanders Chapter 6 Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical Ethics 105 Ezra E. H. Griffith Chapter 7 Does an African American Perspective Alter Clinical Ethical Decision Making at the Bedside? 127 Reginald L. Peniston Chapter 8 Race, Genetics, and Ethics 137 Kevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal Afterword An African American’s Internal Perspective on Biomedical Ethics 153 Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. Contributors 159 Index 161 CONTENTS ...