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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.

Integral Ecology

Author : Gerard Magill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152751210X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Integral Ecology written by Gerard Magill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is a collection of essays presented at the 2nd annual Integrity of Creation Conference at Duquesne University, USA, and thus represents the 2nd Conference Proceedings of an annual endowed series. The title of this conference was “Protecting Our Common Home,” adopted in the title of this volume. The concept of Integral Ecology conveys the indispensable inter-relation of topics, expertise, and specialties in the quest to protect the planet whose environment may face catastrophic threat. A leitmotif throughout the book is the ecological encyclical of Pope Francis called Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home, published in 2015. Indeed, the title of the volume refers to the phrase “integral ecology” and the challenge to “protect our common home” in the encyclical. Although the inspiration for the title comes from a religious leader, the analysis engages both secular and religious perspectives on crucial issues that threaten the ecology of our planet. The sections of the book are divided into the context of the problem, environmental science, social science, religion and ethics, and advocacy.

An African Research Ethics Reader

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004697675
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book An African Research Ethics Reader written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural research ethics is in a nascent phase within the field of research ethics as a whole and requires more attention and in-depth articulation. With specific case studies, this vital volume provides unique perspectives on topics such as social autonomy vis-a-vis interests of individuals. This volume assembles needed resources and case studies in cultural research ethics practices, providing insight into current developments and future research directions. It is a valuable contribution to cultural research ethics given the dearth of published literature available in this emerging field. It is designed with two broad audiences in mind: (1) African researchers and research organizations that want homegrown guidance about research ethics, and (2) research ethicists worldwide who can use it to learn about cultural research ethics especially with respect to Africa.

The Critique of Bioethical Principlism in Contrast to an African Approach to Bioethics

Author : Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis The Critique of Bioethical Principlism in Contrast to an African Approach to Bioethics by : Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo

Download or read book The Critique of Bioethical Principlism in Contrast to an African Approach to Bioethics written by Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though some argue that bioethics in the Black African world is simply a reflection of the Western approach to bioethics, this work suggests otherwise. While the Western approach (bioethical principlism) claims to offer an absolute approach to bioethics in a universalized common morality, this book argues that bioethical principlism can be complemented with African approaches to bioethics. Western principlism, as primarily presented by Thomas L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress, can hardly be incarnated in the African context of bioethical problems unless it is complemented by a contextual normative understanding of African social realities, realities that themselves must be enriched by bioethical principlism. Without claiming to offer the last word on intercultural bioethics or disputing which bioethical approaches deserve prioritization, the work interactively relies on ordinary moral experiences that are practically visible in lived social realities, as well as the community realities surrounding Africans south of the Sahara. Prescriptively, in order to not simply promote life but to do so fully, the African ethical system supports an integral community life by continuously promoting the norm of solidarity, continued vitality, and the hierarchization of life within the corporate community, which the individual must not blindly follow but responsibly interact with, without her identity, freedom, and conscience being crushed.

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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Book Synopsis African Perspectives on Ethics for Healthcare Professionals by : Nico Nortjé

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 Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527535622
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems by : Godfrey B. Tangwa

Download or read book African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems written by Godfrey B. Tangwa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses an important cross-section of issues in contemporary bioethics. It represents an essential contribution to global bioethics anchored and grounded on a continent most remarkable for its biological, cultural and linguistic diversity. It is a fitting beginning to addressing the observable absence of African voices in the rather lively global discourses of bioethics. The issues treated here include a discussion of the fundamental principles of bioethics; the place of African thought in medical research ethics, traditional medicine, and assisted conception; the moral status of embryonic stem cells; research with vulnerable human beings; and sexual and reproductive health in Africa. It explores a paradigm of how the universal and the particular may be blended, how global bioethics can remain firmly anchored and committed locally, regionally, continentally.

Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis

Author : Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735706
Total Pages : 183 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 183 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 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.

Holistic Bioethics

Author : Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Holistic Bioethics written by Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuing a holistic bioethics while dialoguing with different sciences’ appreciation of moral affinities between human and nonhuman entities, Dr. Buyondo argues for a minimum moral status for nonhuman entities. The minimum normative basics of approaches to biomedical ethics are at the very least not distinctive to either human animals or nonhuman animals only. The investigation builds further on the African understanding of life—where no creation is lifeless. In establishing a more inclusive, functional bioethics, the African approach goes further than biocentrism, ecocentrism, and holism to ground an inclusive African “holistic moral egalitarianism,” suggesting that “all forces” and “all created things have life.” We are not emphasizing how every system and creature command equal respect; rather, everything has life, commands respect, and moral concern as a minimum imperative within a Black African holistic approach to bioethics. However, holistic bioethics can neither be Western nor an African invention that people of other cultures only admire from a distance. Moreover, holistic bioethics doesn’t offer the last word on the ethics of nonhuman animals, holistic anamnetic solidarity, the relational Other, and intercultural theological bioethics.

A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease

Author : Malcolm de Roubaix
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502406
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease by : Malcolm de Roubaix

Download or read book A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease written by Malcolm de Roubaix and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incurable disease is a natural phenomenon, inherent to the human condition. This book critically investigates the uniquely human experience of and response to illness and treatment, which affects the body, the mind, and the very core of human existence and identity. Uncertainties regarding the outcomes of laboratory and other investigations that aid in the diagnosis and assessment of disease exacerbate the apprehension inherent to the diagnosis of incurable disease. An excessively scientific approach may disregard the suffering patient. The book begins by analysing the nature, meaning and significance of hope in the context of disease, and goes on to reflect on the language of medicine and the role of emotion, ideology and politics in disease treatment and research. The epilogue reflects on healing as distinct from physical cures. Without hope, there is no future; without healing, no holistic recovery. The final chapters are devoted to the end-of-life period of this journey. This book is a revision, extension, and reconceptualization of the original Afrikaans publication Hoop, Heling en Harmonie: Dink Nuut Oor Siekte en Genesing, winner of the 2021 Andrew Murray Prize for Theological Publications.

Global Health

Author : Solomon Benatar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108626742
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Global Health written by Solomon Benatar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable with the accelerated destruction of the planet. Building on the success of the previous edition, the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, economic, political, environmental and ideological aspects. A multi-disciplinary group of authors suggest not only theoretically compelling arguments for what we must do, but also provide practical recommendations as to how we can promote global health despite contemporary constraints. The importance of cross-cultural dialogue and utilisation of ethical tools in tackling global health problems is emphasised. Thoroughly updated, new or expanded topics include: mass displacement of people; novel threats, including new infectious diseases; global justice; and ecological ethics and planetary sustainability. Offering a diverse range of perspectives, this volume is essential for bioethicists, public health practitioners and philosophers.

Clinical Trials and the African Person

Author : Ike Iyioke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366946
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Trials and the African Person written by Ike Iyioke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Trials and the African Person aims to position the African notion of the self/person within the clinical trials context. As opposed to autonomy-based principlism, this other-regarding/communalist perspective is the preferred alternative model. This tactic draws further attention to the inadequacy of the principlist approach particularly in multicultural settings. It also engenders a rethink, stimulates interest, and re-assesses the failed assumptions of universal ethical principles. As a novel attempt that runs against much of the prevailing (Euro-American) intellectual mood, this approach strives to introduce the African viewpoint by making explicit the import of the self in a re-contextualized arena, meaning within the community and a given milieu. Thus, research ethics must go beyond autonomy-based considerations for the individual, to rightly embed him/her within his/her community and the environment.

Rethinking Clinical Trials and Redefining Responsibility for Research Participants

Author : Ike Iyioke
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804411000
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Clinical Trials and Redefining Responsibility for Research Participants written by Ike Iyioke and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new treatment of clinical research ethics in an African context, and an indispensable resource for researchers, students, policy makers and research institutions interested in African research ethics. In re-appraising the African philosophical notion of selfhood, it argues for the need to re-conceptualize responsibility in clinical trials, pushing researchers to go beyond autonomy-based considerations based on the individual only, and to develop clinical trials that appropriately embed research subjects within their community and their environment. The African standpoint stresses communalism and communitarianism. As such, responsibility for, and by, the individual can only make sense through the community in which the individual is rooted. The book emphasizes the African viewpoint by making explicit the importance of the self in the re-contextualized arena of the community. It forces research ethicists to go beyond autonomy-based considerations for the individual only, and to appropriately embed research subjects within their community and their environment.

Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children

Author : Imogen Goold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150992857X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children written by Imogen Goold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts. This collection provides a comparative perspective on these issues by bringing together analysis from a range of jurisdictions across Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Contextualising the differences and similarities, and drawing out the cultural and social values that inform the approach in different countries, this volume is highly valuable to scholars across jurisdictions, not only to inform their own local debate on how best to navigate such cases, but also to foster inter-jurisdictional debate on the issues. The book brings together commentators from the fields of law, medical ethics, and clinical medicine across the world, actively drawing on the view from the clinic as well as philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should decide about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness. In doing so, the collection offers comprehensive treatment of the key questions around whether the current best interests approach is still appropriate, and if not, what the alternatives are. It engages head-on with the concerns seen in both the academic and popular literature that there is a need to reconsider the orthodoxy in this area.

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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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.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics

Author : Wendy A. Rogers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000609162
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics written by Wendy A. Rogers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six parts: I Foundations of feminist bioethics II Identity and identifications III Science, technology and research IV Health and social care V Reproduction and making families VI Widening the scope of feminist bioethics The volume is essential reading for anyone with an interest in bioethics or feminist philosophy, and will prove an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers and advanced students Chapters 2, 22, and 30 of this book will soon be freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at www.taylorfrancis.com

Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis

Author : Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622734599
Total Pages : 183 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 2019-04-23 with total page 183 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.