Volume 66 Number 4
September 1999

Theme Issue - Issues In Medical Ethics Hope, Distrust And Allocation: Minority Encounters With The Health Care System
Rosamond Rhodes, Daniel A. Moros and William Fisk, guest editors
 

Introduction	210
Daniel A. Moros, Rosamond Rhodes, and William Fisk
Minority Distrust of Medicine: A Historical Perspective	212
Robert Baker
Trusting Under Pressure	223
Laurence Mordekhai Thomas
Diagnosing Death: What's Trust Got to Do with It?	229
Lance K. Stell
Distrust, Social Justice, and Health Care	236
Howard McGary
Affirmative Action and the Allocation of Health Care	241
Leslie Pickering Francis
Trust, Patient Well-Being and Affirmative Action in	247
Medical School Admissions Kenneth DeVille

Cultures Colliding: Conflicts and Perspectives

Issues of Health Care Mistrust in East Harlem  Lorna G. Canlas	257
Asian Patients' Distrust of Western Medical Care:	259
One Perspective Chen-Li Sung
On Establishing Trust Christine Kajubi	262
The Hispanic, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and HIV-	263
Infected Experience in Health Care Milton L. Wainberg
Patients' Rights and Professional Responsibilities:	267
The Moral Case for Cultural Competence Lynne D. Richardson
Stop Experimenting on My Baby!	271
Ian R. Holzman
'Tis Better to Receive than to Give: The Relative	273
Failure of the African American Community to Provide Organs for Transplantation Maritza Rozon-Solomon and Lewis Burrows
Blood Transfusion and the Pregnant Jehovah's Witness Patient:	277
Avoiding a Dilemma David H. Schonholz
African Americans and the Medical Establishment	280
Cheryl Smith
Resolving Conflicts: Misconceptions and Myths in the	282
Care of the Patient with Sickle Cell Disease Millicent Sutton, George F. Atweh, Teresa D. Cashman, and William T. Davis
Panel Discussion	286

DERMATOLOGY NOTES

Erythema Nodosum	290
Albert M. Lefkovits, Marsha Gordon, and Mark Lebwohl

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