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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.
I WROTE THESE PAGES of stories, poems, and journal entries over a two-and-a-half-year period after my son died from a pulmonary embolism, just hours prior to his release to home from the hospital. The different shifts of topics represent the different stages of my life experience, along with other poems and journal entries from his friends and family that are unedited to represent their own expressions of grief regarding my son.
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 The Stricklands, Edwin Lanham tells the story of two brothers, tenant farmers who faced losing their land in 1930s Oklahoma. One brother turns to stealing; the other struggles to unite whites and blacks against the exploitative landowners. Originally published in 1939, this novel provides insight into rural life in Depression-era Oklahoma. A new foreword by Lawrence Rodgers sets Lanham’s novel in its historical, regional, and literary context.
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.
In this powerful story of redemption and love, a prodigal young woman from the hills of Virginia flees the men who lured her away from a godly upbringing into a life of desperation. Taking on a new identity, Mary Bridget Washburn escapes to the quaint city of Alexandria, Virginia, where her path crosses that of a widowed minister with three young children and daunting problems of his own. Can Mary Bridget and her tainted past stay hidden long enough for her to bring hope to a family falling apart?
The Owens Family is controlled by their matriarch, a bully who unintentionally undermines her daughters role as a mother and wife. As the family experiences a series of challenges, struggles, and tragedies, they are also impacted by the mishaps of their neighbors and friends. Eventually, the Owens cloud of bitterness will be lifted by the glory of sweetness. A sweetness thats also a public shock and embarrassment!
As French Canadians living on a saltwater farm overlooking the Maine coast, the Dupuy men are hardworking fishermen and the women are resourceful wives and mothers. Jordi Dupuy is set to become a lobsterman when World War II erupts and his father heads to the battlefields. A BookSense 76 selected title.