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African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics

Author : Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401786259
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics written by Leonard Tumaini Chuwa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually thought. Bioethics is a relatively new academic discipline. However, ethics has existed informally since before the time of Hippocrates. The indigenous culture of African peoples has an ethical worldview which predates the western discourse. This indigenous ethical worldview has been orally transmitted over centuries. The earliest known written African text containing some concepts and content of ethics is the “Declaration of Innocence” written in 1500 B.C., found in an Egyptian text. Ubuntu is an example of African culture that presents an ethical worldview. This work interprets the culture of Ubuntu to explain the contribution of a representative indigenous African ethics to global bioethics. Many modern scholars have written about the meaning of Ubuntu for African societies over centuries. Some scholars have viewed Ubuntu as the greatest contribution of African cultures to other world cultures. None of the scholars, however has explored the culture of Ubuntu as providing a representative indigenous ethics that can contribute to global bioethics as discussed in this book.

African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics

Author : Leonard Chuwa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401786263
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics written by Leonard Chuwa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and inclusive than is usually thought. Bioethics is a relatively new academic discipline. However, ethics has existed informally since before the time of Hippocrates. The indigenous culture of African peoples has an ethical worldview which predates the western discourse. This indigenous ethical worldview has been orally transmitted over centuries. The earliest known written African text containing some concepts and content of ethics is the “Declaration of Innocence” written in 1500 B.C., found in an Egyptian text. Ubuntu is an example of African culture that presents an ethical worldview. This work interprets the culture of Ubuntu to explain the contribution of a representative indigenous African ethics to global bioethics. Many modern scholars have written about the meaning of Ubuntu for African societies over centuries. Some scholars have viewed Ubuntu as the greatest contribution of African cultures to other world cultures. None of the scholars, however has explored the culture of Ubuntu as providing a representative indigenous ethics that can contribute to global bioethics as discussed in this book.

Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis

Author : Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735706
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis by : Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh

Download or read book Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis written by Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethics urges us to question and debate fundamental moral issues that arise in health-related sciences. However, as a result of Western dominance and globalization, bioethical thinking and practice has inevitably been shaped and defined by Western theories. With recent discussions centering on the relationship between culture and bioethics, it is important to consider how and to what extent can bioethics reflect and accommodate non-Western values and beliefs? Debatably, many scholars working in the field of ‘African bioethics’ seek to construct a bioethical practice that is grounded in indigenous African values. Yet, how relevant are ancient African cultural norms to the lives and realities of the 21st century Sub-Saharan-Africans? This edited volume explores bioethics in Africa from pluralistic and inter-cultural perspectives. The selected papers offer diverse theoretical and practical perspectives on the bioethical challenges that are common and specific to the lives of Sub-Sahara Africans. The contributors define bioethics broadly (beyond ethical issues relating to biomedical and biotechnological science) to include applied ethics that concern all aspects of life. Multidisciplinary in approach, the contributions to this book consider bioethics in relation to philosophy, social work, psychiatry, African studies, religious studies, psychology, and medicine. The broad scope of this volume means it will be of interest to those studying and working in bioethics as well as the fields mentioned above.

African Perspectives on Ethics for Healthcare Professionals

Author : Nico Nortjé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319932306
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book African Perspectives on Ethics for Healthcare Professionals written by Nico Nortjé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on ethical issues faced by a variety of healthcare practitioners across the Anglophone African continent. This important resource contains in-depth discussions of the most salient current ethical issues by experts in various healthcare fields. Each profession is described from both an African and a South African perspective, and thus contributes to dialogue and critical thinking around African ethics and decision-making. In this way the book provides readers with an understanding of the ethical issues at hand in various professions, including the practical implications of the ethical issues and how to address those effectively. This is a beneficial resource for all those involved in the various healthcare professions addressed in this book, including undergraduate students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners across the continent. Simply put, with the dynamic changes and challenges in healthcare across the globe and in Africa, this is an indispensable resource for healthcare practitioners.

African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent

Author : Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319058916
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent written by Peter Ikechukwu Osuji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa. WHO statistics show that as much as 80% of the population in Africa uses traditional medicine for primary health care. With such a large constituency, it follows that ATM and its practices should receive more attention in bioethics. By comparing the ethics of care approach with the ATM approach to Relational Autonomy In Consent (RAIC), the authors argue that the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent. This book is distinctive insofar as it employs the ethics of care as a hermeneutic to interpret ATM. The analysis examines the ethics of care movement in Western bioethics to explore its relational approach to informed consent. Additionally, this is the first known study that discusses healthcare ethics committees in ATM.

African Values, Ethics, and Technology

Author : Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030705501
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis African Values, Ethics, and Technology by : Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu

Download or read book African Values, Ethics, and Technology written by Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology.

African Ethics

Author : Munyaradzi Felix Murove
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Ethics written by Munyaradzi Felix Murove and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive volume on African ethics, centered on Ubuntu and its relevance today. Important contemporary issues are explored, such as African bioethics, business ethics, traditional African attitudes to the environment, and the possible development of a new form of democracy based on indigenous African political systems. In a world that has become interconnected, this anthology demonstrates that African ethics can make valuable contributions to global ethics. It is not only African academics, students, organizations, or those individuals committed to ethics that are envisaged as the beneficiaries of this book, but all humankind. A number of topics presented here were inspired by a Shona proverb that says, Ndarira imwe hairiri (One brass wire cannot produce a sound). The chorus of voices in African Ethics demonstrates this proverbial truism.

African Ethics and Death

Author : Motsamai Molefe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835597
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book African Ethics and Death written by Motsamai Molefe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death. The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral personhood and are therefore worthy of full ethical consideration. It then applies this theory to the problems associated with death. In the medical context, will an African theory of moral status permit or forbid euthanasia? Do we have moral obligations towards dead human bodies? Overall, the book provides an important African axiological contribution to debates on global ethics and moral philosophy. Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and African studies.

Bioethics Across Borders

Author : Chikezie Onuoha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789155468699
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Bioethics Across Borders written by Chikezie Onuoha and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Bioethics

Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783330009363
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book African Bioethics written by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Persons in Community

Author : Ronald Nicolson
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Persons in Community written by Ronald Nicolson and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a distinctive African perspective on right and wrong? Do ethical frameworks differ across cultures? Is there such a thing as a common global ethic? Do traditional African ethical views have anything to contribute to this global ethic? Can traditional African ethics survive in a world increasingly dominated by a single global economy? The contributors to this book show that there are distinctive common strands in African ethical views, although these need to be examined and challenged. They apply these strands to very different contexts: the worlds of business, medicine, government, political change, and gender relationships. The book reveals that despite their rootedness in a past culture, African ethics are in a continuous state of development and change, and have a considerable contribution to make to an emerging global ethic. This book demands that the African voice is heard.

Indigenous Health Ethics: An Appeal To Human Rights

Author : Deborah Zion
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1786348586
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Health Ethics: An Appeal To Human Rights written by Deborah Zion and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersections of bioethics, human rights and health equity. It does so through the contextual lenses of nation states while presenting global themes on rights, colonialism and bioethics. The book is framed by the following propositions on indigenous health: it is a human rights issue; it is located within the politics of colonization; and subjugated indigenous knowledges require restoring.

Bioethics of Nonexistence

Author : Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098033140
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Bioethics of Nonexistence written by Leonard Tumaini Chuwa and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest violence and violation of human life is legalization of its disposability and annihilation based on its condition. Such killing, whether of self or another, depicts absolute contradiction and betrayal of the very hypothesis of humanity. It manifests absolute failure to provide due care, and that is inhuman. Human life is who we are. It is the basis of any argument for human rights. There cannot be a right to terminate the existence of the rights bearer. Such a right contradicts the possibility of its own existence. There cannot be dignity in terminating the one in whom dignity resides. There can only be indignity in killing a person. The paradox of legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide represents humanity turned on itself. It is endorsement of existential nihilism and objectification of human life. It is the beginning of the end of humanhood. This book is a critical ethical exploration of mind-sets around euthanasia and assisted suicide to provide clarity, sobriety, and objectivity. The book is really about ontology of human life. Dr. Leonard Tumaini Chuwa is a Catholic priest and scholar working for Ascension as director of spiritual care for the state of Florida. Dr. Chuwa is certified by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC). Chuwa has bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and theology; master of arts degree in theology and religious studies from John Carroll Jesuit University in Cleveland, Ohio; and a doctor of philosophy degree in bioethics and health-care ethics from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chuwa is a distinguished public speaker on different bioethical issues. His first book, titled African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics: Interpretation of Ubuntu, was published by Springer Academic Publishing as the first book in a new global bioethics series. Father Chuwa also authored Bioethical False Truths: Egotistic and Relativistic Autonomy vs. Christian and Ubuntu Relational Autonomy.

Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956578150
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame written by Godfrey B. Tangwa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, In close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives To The problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation. The problem, however, Is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain amount of leisure and comfort which the existential conditions of life on the African continent have not easily permitted in the retrospect-able past. The elements of African bioethics are to be found in its cultural values, traditions, customs and practices. These are research-able, highlight-able and usable by those who would. The bioethical problems of our current global existential situation are such that all possible solutions, no matter their provenance, ought to be tried. Western culture†has far too loud a voice combined with deaf ears in contemporary ethical discourse. But it should never be forgotten that other cultures†have their own word to say and that alternative values, ways of thinking and practices exist, and attempt should always be made to bring these out and to highlight them, if they could possibly contribute To The satisfactory solution of a global problem. This book brings together various papers on bioethical issues and problems, written at different times, some previously published, each of which attempts to bring out some African†elements, perspective or concern. The African narrative style predominates through these essays but their framing conforms, more or less, To the Western paradigm for presenting academic issues.

Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education

Author : Mthembu, Ntokozo
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799812510
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education written by Mthembu, Ntokozo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa’s recent higher education protests around fees and decolonizing institutions have shone a spotlight on important issues and inspired global discussion. The educational space was the most affected by clashes between languages and ideas, the prioritizing of English and Afrikaans over indigenous African languages, and the prioritizing of Western medicine, literature, arts, culture, and science over African ones. Ethical Research Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge Education is a cutting-edge scholarly resource that examines forthcoming methodologies and strategies on educational reform and the updating of curricula to accurately reflect cultural shifts. The book examines the bias and problems that bias creates in educational systems around the world that have been dominated by Western forms of knowledge and scientific processes. Featuring a range of topics such as andragogy, indigenous knowledge, and marginalized students, this book is ideal for education professionals, practitioners, curriculum designers, academicians, researchers, administrators, and students.

Research Ethics in Africa

Author : Mariana Kruger
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689303
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Research Ethics in Africa written by Mariana Kruger and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide research ethics committee members with a resource that focuses on research ethics issues in Africa. The authors are currently active in various aspects of research ethics in Africa and the majority have been trained in the past by either the Fogarty International Center or Europe and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP) sponsored bioethics training programmes .

An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics

Author : Motsamai Molefe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030465195
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics written by Motsamai Molefe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This book argues that this idea of personhood embodies an under-explored conception of dignity, which accounts for it in terms of our capacity for the virtue of sympathy. It then proceeds to apply this personhood-based conception of dignity to bioethical questions, specifically, those of abortion and euthanasia. Regarding abortion, it concludes that it is impermissible since foetuses possess partial moral status. Regarding euthanasia, it argues that it is permissible for reasons revolving around avoiding the reversing of personhood. It also, though, minimally, touches on the questions regarding the mentally disabled and animals, to which it assigns lower moral status.