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Conference Symposium on African American Perspectives in Bioethics (2004 : Georgetown University)

Title African American bioethics [electronic resource] : culture, race, and identity / Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr., Edmund D. Pellegrino, editors.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2007.

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Description xxi, 169 p.
Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Medical ethics -- Congresses.
African American philosophy -- Congresses.
Health services accessibility -- United States -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Prograis, Lawrence.
Pellegrino, Edmund D., 1920-2013.
ProQuest (Firm)
Conference on Health Disparities (2nd : 2004 : Georgetown University)
ISBN 9781589011632 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1589011635 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781589011649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1589011643 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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