African American Bioethics

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.

• 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 GbadegesinChapter 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

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