ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY - MEDICAL-ETHICS AND PLURALISM

An emerging issue in medical ethics is how to respond to the growing r eligious and ethnic diversity seen in American hospitals. This fiction alized account of a clinical case uses narrative ethics to explore dec isions at the end of life in a pluralistic society. The author maintai ns that it is the rights secured for patients and their families by se cular bioethics and its inherent respect for pluralism that allow for cultural and religious differences.