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Hearing sub-Saharan African voices in bioethics

Kevin Gary Behrens

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2):95-99 (2017)

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(1 other version)Ancillary Care Obligations in Light of an African Bioethic: From Entrustment to Communion.Thaddeus Metz - 2017 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2):111–126.details Henry Richardson has recently published the first book ever devoted to ancillary care obligations, which roughly concern what medical researchers are morally required to provide to participants beyond what safety requires. In it Richardson notes that he has presented the ‘only fully elaborated view out there’ on this topic, which he calls the ‘partial-entrustment model’. In this article, I provide a new theory of ancillary care obligations, one that is grounded on ideals of communion salient in the African philosophical tradition (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 20 citations
Principles of Biomedical Ethics.Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress - 1995 - Hastings Center Report 25 (4):37.details Book reviewed in this article: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. By Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. Download Export citation Bookmark 2264 citations
Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics.Godfrey B. Tangwa - 2017 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2):101-110.details In this article, I consider the virtual absence of an African voice and perspective in global discourses of medical research ethics against the backdrop of the high burden of diseases and epidemics on the continent and the fact that the continent is actually the scene of numerous and sundry medical research studies. I consider some reasons for this state of affairs as well as how the situation might be redressed. Using examples from the HIV/AIDS and Ebola epidemics, I attempt to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
Partiality and distributive justice in African bioethics.Christopher Simon Wareham - 2017 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2):127-144.details African ethical theories tend to hold that moral agents ought to be partial, in the sense that they should favour members of their family or close community. This is considered an advantage over the impartiality of many Western moral theories, which are regarded as having counterintuitive implications, such as the idea that it is unethical to save a family member before a stranger. The partiality of African ethics is thought to be particularly valuable in the context of bioethics. Thaddeus Metz, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Bioethics: An African Perspective.Godfrey B. Tangwa - 1996 - Bioethics 10 (3):183-200.details In this paper I have attempted to open a window on an African approach to Bioethics — that of the Nso' of the Bamenda Highlands of Kamerun — from the vantage position of someone who has familiarity with both African and Western cultures. Because of its scientific‐cum‐technological sophistication and its proselytising character, Western culture, as well as Western systems of thought and practice, have greatly affected and influenced other cultures, particularly African culture. But Western culture, systems of thought and practice, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 21 citations
Dealing with the other between the ethical and the moral: albinism on the African continent.Elvis Imafidon - 2017 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2):163-177.details Albinism is a global public health issue but it assumes a peculiar nature in the African continent due, in part, to the social stigma faced by persons with albinism in Africa. I argue that there are two essential reasons for this precarious situation. First, in the African consciousness, albinism is an alterity or otherness. The PWA in Africa is not merely a physical other but also an ontological other in the African community of beings, which provides a hermeneutic for the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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