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15Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Healthcare Systems under PressureAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1-15. forthcoming.Stresses on healthcare systems and moral distress among clinicians are urgent, intertwined bioethical problems in contemporary healthcare. Yet conceptualizations of moral distress in bioethical inquiry often overlook a range of routine threats to professional integrity in healthcare work. Using examples from our research on frontline physicians working during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article clarifies conceptual distinctions between moral distress, moral injury, and moral stress and illustrat…Read more
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82The distribution of medical resources, withholding medical treatment, drug trials,advance directives, euthanasia and other ethical issues: The Thandi case (II)Developing World Bioethics 1 (2). 2001.In the first part of this article, we considered how Thandi, a 15-year-old girl, was treated when taken by her mother to their GP, Dr Randera. Dr Randera notified them that Thandi was pregnant, HIV positive, and had syphilis and herpes. Dr Randera also informed them that there was a substantial risk that the baby would be born HIV positive. Both Thandi and her mother wanted an abortion. However, Dr Randera, who was morally opposed to abortions, refused to provide the service and did not refer Th…Read more
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10Protecting Practitioners in Stressed Systems: Translational Bioethics and the COVID-19 PandemicPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 65 (4): 637-645. 2022.ABSTRACT:COVID-19 revealed health-care systems in crisis. Intersecting crises of stress, overwork, and poor working conditions have led to workforce strain, under-staffing, and high rates of job turnover. Bioethics researchers have responded to these conditions by investigating the ethical challenges of pandemic response for individuals, institutions, and health systems. This essay draws on pandemic findings to explore how empirical bioethics can inform post-pandemic translational bioethics. Bor…Read more
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4This book puts forth the concept and practice of hip-hop mindfulness as a way for minoritized communities to take creative risks in the face of cultural oppression within educational institutions. Written for students of social justice and diversity education, foundations of education, and ethnic studies, this book introduces the hip-hop mindset as a professional practice that holds relevance for ambitious leaders in any profession who seek to innovate, trailblaze, and create so much professiona…Read more
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7Culture, Community, and Educational Success: Reimagining the Invisible KnapsackLexington Books. 2018.This book offers an opportunity for an anti deficit and positive examination of Black/Black-multiracial culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, and creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines the cultural path to the doctorate.
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97The Steve Biko Affair: A Case Study in Medical EthicsDeveloping World Bioethics 3 (1): 77-95. 2003.Steve Biko died in detention in South Africa in 1977. Critical ethical issues are raised both by the conduct of the doctors responsible for Biko's care and by the subsequent response of the medical profession as a whole. Because those issues are relevant to all healthcare professionals everywhere, the Biko affair provides a useful case study in medical ethics. We discuss the case in this article, describing how we use it in our teaching.
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12Albinism in the South African Negro. III. Genetic counselling issuesJournal of Biosocial Science 16 (1): 99-108. 1984.
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The parents' right to a healthy childIn Ellison Kahn (ed.), The Sanctity of Human Life, University of the Witwatersrand. 1984.