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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.

Materials

Baxter, Carol (ed.), Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health Care. London: Baillière Tindall, 2001.

Baxter, Carol, Race Equality in Health Care and Education. London: Baillière Tindall, 1997.

Berger, Arthur, Perspectives on Death and Dying: Cross-Cultural and Multi-Disciplinary Views. Philadelphia, PA: Charles Press, 1989.

Bigby, JudyAnn, Cross Cultural Medicine. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians, 2002.

Braun, Kathryn L., James H. Pietsch, and Patricia L. Blanchette (eds.), Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.

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, San Francisco: California Medical Association, 1983. - see also - Cross-Cultural Medicine: A Decade Later. San Francisco: California Medical Association, 1992.

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, Three Patients: International Perspectives on Intensive Care at the End of Life. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2002.

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.

De Leo, Diego, Suicide and Euthanasia in Older Adults: A Transcultural Journey. Seattle: 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 & Giroux, 1997.

Flack, Harley, and Edmund Pellegrino (eds.), African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics. Georgetown University Press, 1992.

Fukuyama, Francis, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.

Henderson, George, and Martha Primeaux, Transcultural Health Care. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1981.

Hoshino, Kazumasa (ed.), Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in Moral Diversity . Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

Hui, Edwin C., At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2002.

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, 2001.

Leininger, Madeline and Marilyn McFarland, Transcultural Nursing: Concepts, Theories, Research and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002.

Leininger, Madeline M. (ed.), Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Theory of Nursing. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 2001.

Morse, Janice M., Issues in Cross-Cultural Nursing. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1988.

Newman, Lucile F., and James M. Nyce, Women's Medicine: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1985.

Parkes, Colin Murray, Pittu Laungani, and Bill Young (eds.), Death and Bereavement Across Cultures. Routledge, 1996.

Parry, Joan K., and Angela Shen Ryan, A Cross-Cultural Look at Death, Dying, and Religion. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1995.

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. Kluwer Academic, 2002.

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.

Salimbene, Suzanne, What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In?. Amherst, MA: Amherst Educational Publishing, 2000.

Scherer, Jennifer M., and Rita James Simon, Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

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.

Tremayne, Soraya, Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Sexuality and Fertility. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.

Veatch, Robert M. (ed.), Cross Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics: Readings. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1989. (2nd ed. 2000, added African and African-American perspectives)

Veatch, Robert M., and Harley E. Flack, Case Studies in Allied Health Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Wertz, Dorothy C., and John C. Fletcher, Ethics and Human Genetics: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

Other Resources

Bibliography - "Technology and the African-American Experience" (Includes info on healthcare/bioethics - mostly periodical citations)
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/aatech.html

Culture and Ethnicity in Medicine (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/culturalcomp.html

Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in Medicine
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/cr

Ethnomed - Ethnic medicine information from the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center
http://www.ethnomed.org/
See especially "Cross Cultural Health Care Programs" at
http://www.ethnomed.org/ethnomed/clin_topics/related.html#cross_cultural

Fictional book by African-American author, in which one of the main characters struggles with infertility: Roby, Kimberla Lawson, Here and Now. New York: Kensington Books, 1999.

Gregory A. Plotnikoff
Writes on Bioethics and the Hmong community in Minnesota
http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/Plotnikoff_g.html

John Song
Writes on Bioethics and the Homeless Population
http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/Song_j.html

Journal of Transcultural Nursing
http://www.sagepub.co.ukl/journals/details/j0292.html

Transcultural Nursing Society
http://www.tcns.org