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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bioethics -- Africa.
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Bioethics. |
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Africa. |
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Medical ethics -- Africa.
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Africa. |
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Medical ethics. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1527534669 9781527534667 (OCoLC)1102324895 |
| ISBN |
9781527535626 (electronic book) |
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1527535622 (electronic book) |
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1527534669 |
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9781527534667 |
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