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The Difference That Culture Can Make in End-of-Life Decisionmaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

H. EUGENE HERN ,
BARBARA A. KOENIG ,
LISA JEAN MOORE  and
PATRICIA A. MARSHALL
H. EUGENE HERN
Affiliation:
Highland Hospital, Oakland, California
BARBARA A. KOENIG
Affiliation:
Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
LISA JEAN MOORE
Affiliation:
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco
PATRICIA A. MARSHALL
Affiliation:
Medical Humanities Program, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois
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Abstract

Cultural difference has been largely ignored within bioethics, particularly within the end-of-life discourses and practices that have developed over the past two decades in the U.S. healthcare system. Yet how should culture—specifically cultural differences as reflected among groups defined as ethnically or racially different—be taken into account?

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: DIFFERENCE AND THE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 27 - 40
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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