The #BlackBioethics Toolkit serves as a resource on primarily AJOB articles and essays about bioethics and race, specifically about African-Americans and Black People in the U.S as well as other seminal resources.
If you missed our first-ever webinar on Black Bioethics, hosted by associate editor Kayhan Parsi, JD, Ph.D., featuring panelists Keisha Ray, Ph.D., Brian Williams, MD, Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H., and Patrick Smith, Ph.D., as they discussed racism, police brutality, and what it means for black health, you can see the recording here on our youtube channel.
Bioethics.net Blogs
- Keisha Ray. 2022. We Asked For Racial Equity And They Gave Us Pig Hearts
- Keisha Ray. 2021.“We Are Not Here to Save Bioethics:” Amplifying Diverse Voices in Bioethics
- Keisha Ray. 2021. Black Bioethics, Black Health, and White Mobs
- Keisha Ray. 2021. What is Medicine to do?: Righting Past And Present Abuses Against People of Color
- Craig Klugman. 2020. Considering Systemic Discrimination in Tenure.
- Keisha Ray. 2020. Black Bioethics and How the Failures of the Profession Paved the Way for Its Existence
- Bridgette L. Jones. 2020. The Loud Silence of Racism: It Is Killing Us All
- Nicole Martinez-Martin. 2020. Defunding the Police is a Bioethical Issue.
- Keisha Ray. 2020. Our Response to Racism Should Not Be More Unpaid Work for Black Faculty, Part II.
- Craig Klugman. 2020. Our Response to Racism Should Not Be More Unpaid Work for Black Faculty, Part I.
- Nneka Sederstrom. 2020. Unblinded: Systemic Racism, Institutional Oppression, and Colorblindness.
- David Magnus. 2020. A Statement on Police Brutality from American Journal of Bioethics’ Editor-in-Chief.
- Craig Klugman. 2020. Where Have All the Bioethicists Gone?
- Dalia Feltman, Craig Klugman. 2020. No Quick Fix, But Now is the Time
- Craig Klugman. 2019. Bigotry in Medicine: Legal, Yes. Ethical, No.
- Keisha Ray. 2019. BioethicsTV: Legionnaire’s Disease and the Cover-Up That Killed Flint Residents During the Flint Water Crisis
- Keisha Ray. 2017. When A Doctor Calls A Patient A Racial Slur, Who is Hurt?
- Keisha Ray. 2017. Intersectionality and the Dangers of White Empathy When Treating Black Patients.
- Craig Klugman. 2017. The Aftermath of Charlottesville: What’s a bioethicist to do?
- Keisha Ray. 2016. Inefficient Pain Management for Black Patients Shows That There is a Fine Line Between Inhumane and Superhuman.
- Kayhan Parsi. 2016. The Unbearable Whiteness of Bioethics: Exhorting Bioethicists to Address Racism
- Keisha Ray. 2015. A Case for Viewing the Baltimore Protests as a Bioethics Issue.
- Keisha Ray. 2015. What Are You Doing for Black Philosophy?
- Keisha Ray. 2014. How Do We Talk About Enhancement After Ferguson and the Death of Michael Brown.
- Keisha Ray. 2014. What We Are Forgetting in the Case of Jahi McMath: Culture and Its Impact on Medical Decision-Making.
The American Journal of Bioethics
- Camisha Russell. Meeting the Moment: Bioethics in the Time of Black Lives Matter. 2021
- Volume 21, issue 2. Special Issue on Race and Bioethics. 2021. (Mulitple target articles, essays, and commentaries on the intersection of race, racism, health and healthcare, and bioethics)
- Volume 21, issue 2. Special Issue on Race and Bioethics. 2021.
- Volume 19, issue 2
- Yolonda Wilson, Amina White, Akilah Jefferson & Marion Danis. 2019. Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: The Need for a Conceptual Framework.
- Keisha Ray. 2019. Intersectionality and Power Imbalances Clinicians of Color Face When Patients Request White Clinicians.
- Volume 18, issue 6
- Denise M. Dudzinski. 2018. White Privilege and Playing It Safe.
- Volume 17, issue 9
- Darryl R. J. Macer. 2017. We Can and Must Rebuild the Bridges of Interdisciplinary Bioethics.
- Yolonda Y. Wilson. 2017. There’s No Such Thing as Postracial Medicine
- Javier Perez-Rodriguez & Alejando de la Fuente. 2017. A Call for Critical, Antiracist Medicine: Response to Open Peer Commentaries.
- Volume 15: Issue 4
- Marion Danis, Yolonda Wilson, and Amina White. 2016. Bioethicists Can and Should Contribute to Addressing Racism
- Kayhan Parsi. 2016. The Unbearable Whiteness of Bioethics: Exhorting Bioethicists to Address Racism
- John Stone. Racism and Bioethics: Experiences and Reflections
- Robert Baker. 2016. Race and Bioethics: Bioethical Engagement With a Four-Letter Subject
- Stephen Sodeke. 2016. The Role of Historically Black Medical Schools in Expanding the Purview of Bioethics.
- Stephen Sodeke. 2016. Bioethics Skill Sets Can Work, But It Would Take Moral Courage to Apply Them and Get Desired Results.
- Katrina Karkazis. 2016. Keeping an Eye on Power in Maintaining Racial Oppression and Race-Based Violence
- Anita Ho. 2016. Racism and Bioethics: Are We Part of the Problem?
- Lisa Fuller. 2016. Policy, Advocacy, and Activism. On Bioethicsts’ Role in Combating Racism.
- Volume 7, issue 2
- Olivette Burton, 2007. Why Bioethics Cannot Figure Out What to Do with Race.
- Jordan Silberman, Wynne Morrison & Chris Feudtner. Pride and Prejudice: How Might Ethics Consultation Services Minimize Bias?
- Volume 6, issue 5
- Mark Kuczewski. 2006. Our Cultures, Our Selves: Toward an Honest Dialogue on Race and End-of-Life Decisions.
- Ellen Bernal. 2006. What We Do Not Know About Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in End-of-Life Treatment Decisions.
- Volume 3, issue 2
- Catherine Myser. 2003. Differences from Somewhere: The Normativity of Whiteness in Bioethics in the United States.
- Steven Miles. 2003. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Bioethics Imagination.
- Swathi Arekapudi & Matthew Wynia. 2003. The Unbearable Whiteness of the Mainstream: Should We Eliminate, or Celebrate, Bias in Bioethics?
- Naomi Seller. 2003. Identifying Racial Privilege: Lessons from Critical Race Theory and the Law.
- Sandra Anderson Garcia. 2003. “Decolonizing” the Minds of Bioethicists: Reflections on Psychosocial Challenges.
Other Publications
- Alan Einbaum. 2020. Black Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End-of-Life Care. Hastings Center Report.
- Annette Dula. 1997. Yes, There Are African-American Perspectives in Bioethics. In Nancy Jecker, Albert Jonsen, Robert Pearlman (editors). Bioethics: An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice. Boston: Jones & Bartlett.
- Annette Dula. 1991. Toward an African American Perspective on Bioethics. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
- Camisha Russell. 2016. Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering. Philosophy Compass.
- Cat Myser. 2007. White Normativity in U.S. Bioethics : A Call and Method for More Pluralist and Democratic Standards and Policies. In Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 241.
- Catherine Bliss. 2020. Conceptualizing Race in the Genomic Age. Hastings Center Report.
- Charlene Ann Galarneau. 2020. Structural Racism, White Fragility, and Ventilator Rationing Policies. The Hastings Center Forum
- Daina Ramey Berry. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh. 2017. Beacon Press
- Dayna Bowen Matthew. 2015. Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
- Damon Tweedy. 2015. Black Man in a White Coat. Picador Press.
- Dierdre Cooper Owens. 2017. Medical Bondage. The University of Georgia Press
- Dorothy Roberts. 2012. Debating the Cause of Health Disparities: Implications of Bioethics and Racial Equity. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
- Dorothy Roberts. 2012. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
- Dorothy Roberts. 1998. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
- Evelyn C. White. 1994. The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves
- Faith Fletcher, et al. 2022. A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism Through Intergenerational Dialogue. Hasting Center Special Report
- Harriett Washington.2008. Medical Apartheid. New York. Penguin Random House.
- Jim Jones. 1993. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Free Press.
- John Hoberman 2016, Why Bioethics Has a Race Problem. The Hastings Center Report.
- John Hoberman. 2012. Black and Blue. University of California Press.
- Julia Chinyere, et al. Birthing Justice. 2016. Routledge
- Karla Holloway. 2011. Black Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
- Larence Prograis & Edmund Pellegrino. 2008. African American Bioethics: Culture, Race and Identity. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press
- Marion Danis & Sara Chandros Hull. 2020. Committing to Fight Racism. The Hastings Center Forum.
- Nancy King. 2020. Justice and Domestic Health Research. Ethics & Human Research. DOI:10.1002/eahr.50052
- Patricia King.2004. Reflections on Race and Bioethics in the United States. Health Matrix: Journal of Law and Medicine.
- Rana A. Hogarth. 2017. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
- Rebecca Skloot. 2010. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown.
- Susan Smith. 1995. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in American, 1890-1950. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Susan Wolf. 1999. Erasing Difference: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Bioethics. In Anne Donchin & Laura Purdy (editors). Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Tina K. Sacks. 2019. Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System
- Vernellia R. Randall. 1995. Slavery, Segregation and Racism: Trusting the Health Care System Ain’t Always Easy–An African American Perspective on Bioethics. 15 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 191 (1995-1996).
- Yolonda Wilson, 2018, Jahi McMath, Race, and Bioethics. The Hastings Center Report.
- Zamina Mithani, Jane Cooper and J. Wesley Boyd. 2020. Bioethics and Black Lives: A Call for Bioethics to Speak Against Racial Injustice. The Hastings Center Forum
Film/Art/Podcasts/Webinars/Other Media
- Antoinette Cooper. 2019. Death by Chocolate Cyst. [spoken word]
- Ms. Evers’ Boys. 1997. (Tuskegee Syphilis Study) [film]
- Natal. (audio docuseries on having a baby while black in the United States.) [documentary]
- Whit Taylor. 2020. Black Mothers Face Far Worse Health Outcomes. How Do We Fix It? [graphic medicine]
- Whit Taylor and Chris Kindred. 2018. African-Americans Are More Likely to Distrust the Medical System. Blame the Tuskegee Experiment. [graphic medicine]
- Whit Taylor. 2017. What is Race? [graphic medicine]
- Unnatural Causes (7-part PBS documentary on how inequality makes us sick). California Newsreel. [documentary]
Other Resources
- Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism Lens. University of Minnesota
- Johnson, Antoine S, Mitchell, Elise A, Nuriddin, Ayah. 2020. Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
- Northwestern University’s Center for Health Equity Transformation–Anti-Racism Resources
- Yale’s Race, Bioethics and Public Health Project
- Campaign Zero – “analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide”
- #8CantWait – Ideas to reduce police violence and reports on their adoption in different cities.