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Personal Narrative and an African-American Perspective on Medical Ethics

Dr. Griffith is Professor of Psychiatry and of African-American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Address correspondence to: Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and of African-American Studies, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, Suite 901, New Haven, CT 06511

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.

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