Elements Of African Bioethics In A Western Frame

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789956578153

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Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame by Godfrey B. Tangwa Pdf

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.

Author : Gerard Magill,Jordan Potter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527512108

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Integral Ecology by Gerard Magill,Jordan Potter Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004697676

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An African Research Ethics Reader by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Nico Nortjé,Willem A. Hoffmann,Jo-Celene De Jongh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319932309

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African Perspectives on Ethics for Healthcare Professionals by Nico Nortjé,Willem A. Hoffmann,Jo-Celene De Jongh Pdf

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.

Author : Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh,Caesar A. Atuire
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781622735709

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Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis by Yaw A. Frimpong-Mansoh,Caesar A. Atuire Pdf

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.

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527535626

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African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems by Godfrey B. Tangwa Pdf

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.

Author : Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401786256

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African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics by Leonard Tumaini Chuwa Pdf

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.​

Author : Godfrey B. Tangwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000051259152

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African Philosophy in a Western Frame by Godfrey B. Tangwa Pdf

Author : Malcolm de Roubaix
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781527502406

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A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease by Malcolm de Roubaix Pdf

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.

Author : Ike Iyioke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004366947

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Clinical Trials and the African Person by Ike Iyioke Pdf

Clinical Trials and the African Person offers an account of the African notion of the self/person within the clinical trials context. As opposed to autonomy-based principlism, this other-regarding/communalist perspective is touted as the preferred alternative model particularly in multicultural settings.

Author : Solomon Benatar,Gillian Brock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108728713

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Global Health by Solomon Benatar,Gillian Brock Pdf

Offers theoretical and practical guidance for addressing global health, and a deeper understanding of the challenges humanity faces.

Author : Ike Iyioke
Publisher : Ethics International Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781804411001

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Rethinking Clinical Trials and Redefining Responsibility for Research Participants by Ike Iyioke Pdf

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.

Author : Wendy A. Rogers,Jackie Leach Scully,Stacy M. Carter,Vikki A. Entwistle,Catherine Mills
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000609165

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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics by Wendy A. Rogers,Jackie Leach Scully,Stacy M. Carter,Vikki A. Entwistle,Catherine Mills Pdf

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

Author : Imogen Goold,Cressida Auckland,Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509928576

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Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children by Imogen Goold,Cressida Auckland,Jonathan Herring Pdf

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.

Author : Humphrey Ngala Ndi,Henry Ngenyam Bang,Zebulon Suifon Takwa,Anna Tasha Mbur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031412493

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Health Diplomacy in Africa by Humphrey Ngala Ndi,Henry Ngenyam Bang,Zebulon Suifon Takwa,Anna Tasha Mbur Pdf

The purpose of this book is to project diplomacy as an unavoidable instrument for monitoring, prevention and control of health and disaster risks among African countries. The book advocates health cooperation in Africa at a time when pandemics are recurrent. Outside of the WHO, many countries, even within regional groupings have not actively pursued health cooperation. We intend this book to provide the basis for advocating the inclusion of health diplomacy in the curricula of the training of the African diplomat with the hope to stimulate gradual policy shifts in foreign ministries, regional groupings, and the African Union.