1. Haggard 1889. [BACK]

2. Gupta and Ferguson n.d. [BACK]

3. Daniel 1984, Marriott 1976, 1989. [BACK]

4. See CaUahan 1987, 1993. [BACK]

5. Several white staff members at the American hospital on whose ethics committee I have been an observer noted with some exasperation, in a committee discussion of futility and appropriate care, that African American family members were far more likely to resist staff efforts to get them to agree to the withholding of intensive care when it was likely to be futile. The staff understood this resistance, for the most part, as suspiciousness—based upon a history of discrimination—that prevented rational decision-making. [BACK]

6. Roy 1975; Kakar 1981. [BACK]

8. Young 1981. [BACK]

9. "Thousands Lost in Mela Yet to Be Reunited" 1989. [BACK]

10. Lewin 1996. [BACK]

11. Kevorkian 1996. [BACK]

12. Farmer and Kleinman 1989. [BACK]

13. Chopra 1992, 1993. [BACK]

14. Chopra, The Return of Merlin 1995, The Way of the Wizard 1995. [BACK]