In African American Bioethics, Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. and Edmund D. Pellegrino bring together medical practitioners, researchers, and theorists to assess one fundamental question: Is there a distinctive African American bioethics? The book's contributors resoundingly answer yes--yet their responses vary. They discuss the continuing African American experience with bioethics in the context of religion and tradition, work, health, and U.S. society at large--finding enough commonality to craft a deep and compelling case for locating a black bioethical framework within the broader practice, yet recognizing profound nuances within that framework. African American Bioethics does much to advance the field by exploring how medicine and ethics accommodate differing cultural and racial norms, suggesting profound implications for growing minority groups in the United States.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Culture and Bioethics: Where Ethics and Mores Meet Edmund D. Pellegrino Chapter 1. Revisiting African American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: Distinctiveness and Other Questions Jorge L. A. Garcia Chapter 2. The Moral Weight of Culture in Ethics Segun GbadegesinChapter 3. Whitewashing Black Health: Lies, Deceptions, Assumptions and Assertions -- And the Disparities Continue Annette Dula Chapter 4. Race, Equity, Health Policy, and the African American Community Patricia A. King Chapter 5. Religion and Ethical Decision Making in the African American Community: Bioterrorism and the Black Postal Workers Cheryl J. Sanders Chapter 6. Personal Narrative and an African American Perspective on Medical Ethics Ezra 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 Ethics Kevin FitzGerald and Charmaine Royal Afterword: An African American's Internal Perspective on Biomedical Ethics Lawrence J. Prograis, Jr. Contributors Index