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86Race and healthcare disparities: Overcoming vulnerabilityTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 23 (6): 499-518. 2002.The paper summarizes recently published data and recommendations about healthcare disparities experienced by African Americans who have Medicare or other healthcare coverage. Against this background the paper addresses the ethics of such disparities and how disadvantages of vulnerable populations like African Americans are typically maintained indecision making about how to respond to such disparities. Considering how to respond to disparities reveals much that vulnerable populations would bring…Read more
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71Saving and Ignoring Lives: Physicians’ Obligations to Address Root Social Influences on Health—Moral Justifications and Educational ImplicationsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (4): 497-509. 2010.The predominant influences on health are social or upstream factors. Poverty, inadequate education, insecure and toxic environments, and inferior opportunities for jobs and positions are inequitable disadvantages that adversely affect health across the globe. Many causal pathways are yet to be understood. However, elimination of these social inequalities is a moral imperative of the first order. Some physicians by word and deed argue that medical doctors should oppose the “structural violence” o…Read more
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57Introduction to ``vulnerability'' issues of theretical medicine and bioethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 23 (6): 421-424. 2002.
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43Healthcare Inequality, Cross-Cultural Training, and Bioethics: Principles and ApplicationsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (2): 216-226. 2008.To promote so-called cultural competence in work of direct-care providers and other health professionals among diverse peoples, cross-cultural training is now widely advised. However, in ethically assessing aims and content of CCT, and surrounding issues and concerns, what should guide us? And if we can elaborate satisfactory moral touchstones, what do they imply for healthcare professionals, overarching structures, and bioethicists? Building on prior work, this paper tries to help answer these …Read more
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36Guest EditorialCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (3): 307. 2012.Among the greatest challenges to improving health is determining how cultural diversity should influence healthcare practices and organizations, public health measures, biomedical research, and community partnering. Important but seldom addressed are challenges for bioethicists
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34Ethics and Medical Judgment: Whose Values? What Process?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (4): 404-406. 2013.
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31Commentary: Mrs. J—Culture and Healthcare Ethics CommitteesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (4): 537-540. 2010.The heart-rending story of Mrs. J raises many complex ethical issues. Key elements include suffering, disagreement, culture, religion, perspective, and facts. Overarching concerns include whose voices and stories should count, the connection of pain with suffering, and how healthcare ethics committees should respond
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29Elderly and Older Racial/Ethnic Minority Healthcare InequalitiesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (3): 342-352. 2012.
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25Perspective: Wake-Up Call Health Care and RacismHastings Center Report 32 (4): 48. 2002.If you are black, you are more likely to get inferior health care than if you are white. And if you are Hispanic or Native American, odds are you're also in trouble. So finds the Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
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23Discussion in graduate online bioethics programsInternational Journal of Ethics Education 2 (1): 17-36. 2016.In this paper, we explore best practices for asynchronous discussions in graduate online bioethics education. We explain that online approaches have advantages and challenges in contrast to in-person discussions. Online challenges are lack of visual or auditory cues and technical access. Advantages include extended opportunities for specific focus, thoughtful reflection, and critical review. We found no significant review of related best practices in bioethics. Our more general literature review…Read more
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17Racism and Bioethics: Experiences and ReflectionsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (4): 13-15. 2016.
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13Guest EditorialCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17 (2): 139-141. 2008.Among the greatest challenges to improving health is determining how cultural diversity should influence healthcare practices and organizations, public health measures, biomedical research, and community partnering. Important but seldom addressed are challenges for bioethicists.
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12Elderly and Older Racial/Ethnic Minority Healthcare Inequalities - Care, Solidarity, and ActionCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (3): 342-352. 2012.
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11Guest Editorial - The Need for Continued Ethical ScrutinyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (3): 307. 2012.
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11Herstory as an Important Force in BioethicsHastings Center Report 52 (S1): 83-88. 2022.Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S83-S88, March‐April 2022.
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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.