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Recommended Reading List

The list below has been compiled by our faculty for students who wish to deepen their self-study of bioethics while pursuing the graduate certificate or Master’s in Urban Bioethics. 

Books

  • Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 8th edition – Beauchamp and Childress 
  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics, Arthur Frank 
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet Washington  
  • Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, Dayna Matthew 
  • Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics, ed. Obasogie and Darnovsky 
  • Empirical Bioethics: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, ed. Ives, Dunn, and Cribb
  • The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics 
  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, Dorothy Roberts 
  • The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition, Arthur Kleinman 
  • Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, Alice Dreger 
  • Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine), Frank McClellan 
  • Making Medical Knowledge, Miriam Solomon 
  • Fatal Invention, Dorothy Roberts
  • Breathing Race into The Machine, Lundy Braun
  • The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
  • Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini

Articles

  • Danis, M., Wilson, Y., & White, A. (2016). Bioethicists Can and Should Contribute to Addressing Racism. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(4), 3-12. doi:10.1080/15265161.2016.1145283
  • Dubler, N. N. (2013). The Art of the Chart Note in Clinical Ethics Consultation and Bioethics Mediation: Conveying Information that Can Be Understood and Evaluated. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 24(2), 148-155.
  • Fiester, A. M. (2015, March 1). What Mediators Can Teach Physicians About Managing ‘Difficult’ Patients [Editorial]. The American Journal of Medicine, 128(3), 215-216. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.09.017
  • Kon AA, et al. Defining Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Interventions: A Policy Statement From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee. Crit Care Med. 2016 Sep; 44(9); 1769-74.
  • Marcus, L. J., Dorn, B. C., & Mcnulty, E. J. (2012). The Walk in the Woods: A Step-by-Step Method for Facilitating Interest-Based Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Negotiation Journal, 28(3), 337-349. doi:10.1111/j.1571-9979.2012.00343.x
  • Morreim, H. (2018). Mediating Healthcare Disputes More, Earlier . . . And Differently: Mediating Directly in the Clinical Setting. The Health Lawyer, 31(1), 18-29.
  • Reynolds, J.M. (2018). Three Things Clinicians Should Know about Disability. AMA Journal of Ethics, 20(12):E1181-1187.
  • Saltman, D. C. (2006). Conflict management: A primer for doctors in training. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 82(963), 9-12. doi:10.1136/pgmj.2005.034306
  • Sherwin, S., & Baylis, F. (2003). The feminist health care ethics consultant as architect and advocate. Public Affairs Quarterly, 17(2), 141-158.
  • Stramondo, J.A. (2016). Why Bioethics Needs a Disability Moral Psychology. The Hastings Center Report, May-June, 22-30.
  • Wahlert, L., & Fiester, A. (2014). Repaving the Road of Good Intentions: LGBT Health Care and the Queer Bioethical Lens. The Hastings Center Report, 44(S4). doi:10.1002/hast.373

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