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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.
THE STORY: Arrested in Italy in 1945 by the liberating U.S. troops, the famous expatriate poet, Ezra Pound, was imprisoned in a cage and treated like an animal--which many people considered him to be. At issue were some eighty-four wartime radio bro
In this powerful novel set in contemporary Kandahar, an Afghan woman approaches an American military base to demand the return of her brother's body. At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cue from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel re-creates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the soldiers and their families--especially one sister.
Midnight Soliloquy is a complete poetry collection written by Donald Perkins Jr consisting of all his previous works. Though usually writing on topics such as racial identity, love, pain, or loss, Donald shows versatility with poems ranging from weather to word structure. Laced throughout are colorful quotes gathered from friends, from family, and discovered through self-reflection. While weaving in pieces on new topics, Midnight Soliloquy also showcases the various stages of growth found in getting older.
Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul. It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best friend, Little Man. But then two Yankee real estate agents trespass on her family's land, and Nolay scares them off with his gun. When a storm blows in and Bones and Little Man uncover something horrible at the edge of the Loo-chee swamp, the evidence of foul play points to Nolay. The only person that can help Nolay is Sheriff LeRoy, who's as slow as pond water. Bones is determined to take matters into her own hands. If it takes a miracle, then a miracle is what she will deliver.
In Banner, the central story in the novel with the same name, the two towering forces in Scott Godfrey's life, his brother Lance and his father Buddy, have collapsed at their foundations in separate road accidents three years apart. Now, a light from the present reveals the story of one man's bittersweet crusade against an infidel who appears no saint. Set against the beautiful backdrop of South Central Kentucky and rural Arkansas, Allan St. James tells the tragic story of one Kentucky clan but also of the redemption available through the bonds of blood.
Nearly forty years ago, when she left home and moved to New York, Sallee Mackey was ready to start her law career and find a man to love. Peter seemed just the guya glamorous attorney who was different in all the right ways. Her family didnt always approve of him, but Sallee stuck by his side, even when it pushed her away from the Mackey clan. Now, Sallees petulant daughter Virginia is getting married, and she has chosen to do so at her grandmothers farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sallee is hesitant to return to her roots, but she doesnt have an option. She wont miss her daughters wedding. Family matriarch Ginny has even renovated the barn to entice the entire family to attend, no matter how many new skeletons tumble from half-open closets. Overall, Sallee is happy to see her daughter marry but is concerned about her daughters fianc, who has recently been discovered to be a star just starred in an as-yet-to-be-named pornographic film. Tension only increases when Virginia loses what little cool she once possessed. The Mackey family will have to hash out all sorts of old grudges as the weather forecast portends the biggest blizzard in years.
WHO UNDERSTANDS THE WAYS OF ELVES AND DRAGONS? Some say dragons are the most powerful beings in the Sixth World. Certain elves disagree with that belief in the strongest, most violent terms. An ork of the Seattle ghetto, Kham usually worries about more mundane problems. Day-to-day existence in the now magically active world of 2053 is already tough enough. But all that is about to change. Drawn into a dangerous game of political and magical confrontation, Kham not only learns to never deal with a dragon—he also discovers that trusting an elf might just be the death of him...