TY - JOUR T1 - Personal Narrative and an African-American Perspective on Medical Ethics JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 371 LP - 381 VL - 33 IS - 3 AU - Ezra E. H. Griffith Y1 - 2005/09/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/33/3/371.abstract N2 - 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. ER -