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Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health care that divide our society along color lines. This collection challenges that oversight by bringing ethicists face to face with the plight of a particularly underserved population--African Americans. Health care professionals document disparities in health status and access to care, focusing on issues such as AIDS, homelessness, infant mortality, and distribution of doctors. They discuss distrust and suspicion of the medical community, lack of respect for cultural differences, and self-help approaches. Each chapter is followed by a commentary by a well-known medical ethicist. This anthology enhances traditional medical ethics discourse by presenting the ethical voices and perspectives of African Americans. It is an important guide to developing a culturally aware medical ethics for all ethnic groups ill-served by the nation's health care system.

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?Fifty-three distinguished individuals have combined their expertise and experience to produce a most meaningful scholarly contribution to the current national debate on health care reform. A unique aspect of this work is that each chapter is followed by an individual commentary. This book is authoritative, comprehensive, insightful, and powerful in its impact on the reader. The authors' collaborative effort is an important addition to libraries serving the needs of students and faculty in political science, sociology, public health, public policy, and the health related professions, and philosophy. Upper-division undergraduate through professional.?-Choice

?Fifty-three distinguished individuals have combined their expertise and experience to produce a most meaningful scholarly contribution to the current national debate on health care reform. A unique aspect of this work is that each chapter is followed by an individual commentary. This book is authoritative, comprehensive, insightful, and powerful in its impact on the reader. The authors' collaborative effort is an important addition to libraries serving the needs of students and faculty in political science, sociology, public health, public policy, and the health related professions, and philosophy. Upper-division undergraduate through professional.?-Choice Fifty-three distinguished individuals have combined their expertise and experience to produce a most meaningful scholarly contribution to the current national debate on health care reform. A unique aspect of this work is that each chapter is followed by an individual commentary. This book is authoritative, comprehensive, insightful, and powerful in its impact on the reader. The authors' collaborative effort is an important addition to libraries serving the needs of students and faculty in political science, sociology, public health, public policy, and the health related professions, and philosophy. Upper-division undergraduate through professional. -Choice

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ANNETTE DULA is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. SARA GOERING is a doctoral candidate in philosophy and is affiliated with the Center for Values & Social Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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