Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame.
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 press...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CHAPTER ONE. INTERVIEW WITH PROF. DR. G.B. TANGWA; CHAPTER TWO. BIOETHICS: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE; PRELIMINARY REMARKS; WESTERN CULTURE AND AFRICAN CULTURE; TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING; NSO' METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTIONS AND WORLDVIEW; NSO' POSITION ON SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES; EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE AND ABORTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER THREE. THE ABORTION DEBATE: ETHICS, CUSTOM AND LAW IN INTERACTION; PREAMBLE; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS ABORTION?; DELIBERATE ABORTION; THE EXTREMES; BETWEEN THE EXTREMES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
- Chapter four. african bioethics and sustainable developmentintroduction; african diversities; western conceptions and world-view; globalisation, westernisation and biosecurity; some socio-cultural and ethical concerns science and nature; potential benefits and dangers; technology and communal values; a cautious piecemeal approach; a concluding parable; references; chapter five. african perspectives on biomedical and environmental ethics; introduction; eco-bio-ethics; african perspective; morality and culture; the concentric circles of culture; morality and rationality; derivatives of morality.
- African diversities and conceptual frameworkrespectful coexistence; western conceptions and world-view; spirit of omnivorous discovery; the western world and other worlds; biomedicine; human reproduction; handicapped persons; technology and the environment; self ownership and commerce; poverty and shame; conclusion; references; chapter six. rights and rationing in health care: some random considerations from the african context; preliminary remarks; introduction; the western system; the african system; medicine and health care in traditional africa; implications for modern health care.
- Myth and realitythe limitations of cultures; circumcision in nso' culture; rationalizations for circumcision; infant circumcision; background and riders to my arguments; male and female circumcision; seminar in cameroon; treating equals unequally; disclaimers and qualifiers; gist of my argument; for and against circumcision; science and morality; a personal prerogative; rational persuasion; conclusion; references; chapter ten. feminism and femininity: gender and motherhood in africa; abstract; introduction; feminism and de-feminization; nso' culture as a paradigm.