| Description |
1 online resource |
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Fundamental principles of ethics -- The traditional African perception of a person : some implications for bioethics -- Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics -- Traditional medicine -- How not to compare Western scientific medicine with African traditional medicine -- Assisted reproduction technologies (ART) and African sociocultural practices, worldview, belief and value systesms : with particular reference to Francophone Africa -- Moral status of embryonic stem cells : perspective of an African villager -- Third party assisted conception : an African perspective -- The universal and the particular in current discussions of international bio-medical ethical guidelines -- Research with vulnerable human beings -- Ethics, human rights and sexual/reproductive health in Africa : exploratory socio-cultural considerations -- Leaders in ethics education : Godfrey B. Tangwa |
| Summary |
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 m |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 04, 2019) |
| Subject |
Bioethics -- Africa
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Medical ethics -- Africa
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Bioethics.
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Bioethical Issues
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Medicine, African Traditional
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Human Rights -- ethics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Bioethics
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Medical ethics
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| SUBJECT |
Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
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Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349 |
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527535626 |
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1527535622 |
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