PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Griffith, Ezra E. H.
TI  - Personal Narrative and an African-American Perspective on Medical Ethics
DP  - 2005 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 371--381
VI  - 33
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/371.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/371.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2005 Sep 01; 33
AB  - In recent years, there has been increasing interest in how medical professionals develop and articulate a moral foundation on which to base a way of leading their professional lives. In this essay, however, the author focuses more narrowly on how black physicians do it. The author explains that black physicians confront a unique set of circumstances and experiences that define reality for black doctors and other professionals from non-dominant groups in the United States. From this particular background, black physicians go on to develop a unique perspective on medical ethics. The author uses his own narrative to demonstrate his argument and to show its application to a current debate on the ethics of forensic psychiatry practice.