Bioethics Cross-Cultural Bibliography

Bioethics

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position and, likewise, may or may not be consistent with a biblical worldview. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

Baxter, Carol, ed. Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health Care. London: Baillire Tindall, 2001. Bertameu, Maria Julia and Arleen L.F. Salles, eds. Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives. New York: Rodopi, 2002. Bigby, JudyAnn. Cross Cultural Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Physicians, 2001. Blank, Robert H. and Janna C. Merrick. End-of-Life Decision Making: A CrossNational Study. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Braun, Kathryn L., James H. Pietsch, and Patricia L. Blanchette, eds. Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999. Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. Coward, Harold, and Pinit Ratanakul, eds. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1999. Crippen, David, Jack K. Kilcullen and David F. Kelly, eds. Three Patients: International Perspectives on Intensive Care at the End of Life. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002. De Leo, Diego, Suicide and Euthanasia in Older Adults: A Transcultural Journey. Seattle, WA: Hogrefe & Huber, 2001. Dula, Annette, and Sara Goering. "It Just Ain't Fair": The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994. Elliott, Carl. A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity. New York: Routledge, 1998. Evans, Timothy. Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Flack, Harley, and Edmund Pellegrino, eds. African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics. Georgetown University Press, 1992. Hoshino, Kazumasa, ed. Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 2009. Irish, Donald P., Kathleen F. Lundquist and Vivian J. Nelsen, eds. Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief: Diversity in Universality. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1993. Kar, Snehendu B., Rina Alcalay, and Shana Alex. Health Communication: A Multicultural Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000. Leininger, Madeleine, and Marilyn McFarland. Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002. Newman, Lucile F., ed. Women's Medicine: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Parkes, Colin Murray, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young, eds. Death and Bereavement Across Cultures. New York: Routledge, 1997. Parry, Joan K. A Cross-Cultural Look at Death, Dying, and Religion. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003. Pellegrino, Edmund, Patricia Mazarella, and Pietro Corsi, eds. Transcultural Dimensions in Medical Ethics. University Publishing Group, 1993. Po-wah, Julia Tao Lai. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 2009. Prograis, Lawrence J., Jr. and Edmund D Pellegrino, eds. African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. Purnell, Larry D. Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care. 2nded. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis, 2008. Purnell, Larry D. and Betty J. Paulanka. Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis, 2008. Reverby, Susan M. Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Ray, Marilyn A. Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis, 2008. Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, Maruch Dwell, and Dietmar Mieth, eds. Bioethics in Cultural Contexts: Reflections on Methods and Finitude. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 2009. Roetz, Heiner, ed. Cross-Cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning. New York: Rodopi, 2006. Scherer, Jennifer M., and Rita James Simon. Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. Tremayne, Soraya, ed. Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Sexuality and Fertility. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. Tseng, Wen-Shing and Jon Streltzer. Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Guide for Professionals. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands, 2009. Veatch, Robert M. and Harley E. Flack, Case Studies in Allied Health Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. Veatch, Robert M., ed. Cross Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics. 2nd ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2000. Wertz, Dorothy C., and John C. Fletcher, Ethics and Human Genetics: A CrossCultural Perspective. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

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Baxter, Carol. Race Equality in Health Care and Education. London: Baillire Tindall, 1997. Berger, Arthur. Perspectives on Death and Dying: Cross-Cultural and MultiDisciplinary Views. Philadelphia, PA: Charles Press, 1989. Calsada, Leonor, and Mary Ann Smith. Transcultural Aspects of Perinatal Health Care: A Resource Guide. Tampa, FL: National Perinatal Association, 2001. Carter, James H. Death and Dying Among African-Americans: Cultural Characteristics and Coping Tidbits. New York: Vantage Press, 2001. Clark, M. Margaret. Cross-Cultural Medicine: A Decade Later. San Francisco: California Medical Association, 1992.

Culturally Competent Healthcare: Do we understand it? How do we do it? : Proceedings of the fourth national conference of the Transcultural Nursing and Healthcare Association in partnership with the Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health, Middlesex University and the Foundation of Nursing Studies, July 2002. Birmingham, UK: University of Central England, 2002. Henderson, George, and Martha Primeaux. Transcultural Health Care. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1981. Morse, Janice M. Issues in Cross-Cultural Nursing. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1988. Randall-David, Elizabeth, Strategies for Working with Culturally Diverse Communities and Clients. Washington, D.C.: Association for the Care of Children's Health, 1989. Respecting cultural diversity in health care: the way forward for the 21st century : proceedings of the third national conference of the Transcultural Nursing & Healthcare Association 2000, University of Central England in Birmingham. Birmingham, UK: University of Central England, 2000. Secundy, Marian Gray, and Lois Lacivita Nixon, eds. Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African-American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging, and Loss. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1992. Solomon, Namia R. Z., and Jean Langford. Death and Dying in Ethnic America: A Research Study. Seattle, WA: CCHCP, 2000.