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Abstract
Based on a paper delivered during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Daniels-Sykes, S.S.N.D., proposes that the long history of neglect and abuse suffered by blacks at the hands of the health care industry results from entrenched assumptions fostered by Western philosophies and principles that guide mainstream medical ethics, particularly in light of the 1979 Belmont Report, produced in response to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. That the report failed to take into consideration the circumstances of poverty and race, factors key to our understanding those victimized by the Study, underscores the prevailing implicit assumptions of black inferiority. Daniels-Sykes advises that a black Catholic liberation bioethics must be developed, one that promotes a culture of life.
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Daniels-Sykes, Shawnee M. S.S.N.D.
(2009)
"Code Black: A Black Catholic Liberation Bioethics,"
Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium: Vol. 3, Article 5.
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