Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Culture and Bioethics: Where Ethics and Mores MeetEdmund D. Pellegrino
Chapter 1. Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other QuestionsJorge L. A. Garcia
Chapter 2. The Moral Weight of Culture in EthicsSegun Gbadegesin
Chapter 3. Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions, Assumptions and Assertions—And the Disparities ContinueAnnette Dula
Chapter 4. Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American CommunityPatricia A. King
Chapter 5. Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal WorkersCheryl J. Sanders
Chapter 6. Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical EthicsEzra 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 EthicsKevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal
Afterword: An African American's Internal Perspective on Biomedical EthicsLawrence J. Prograis, Jr.
Contributors Index