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The President’s Physician: An African Play: Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale, 2004, All Saints’ Publishers

Joseph Ajagunmolu Mayaki

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 14 (4):575-581 (2017)

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Beginning Theory, 3/E.Peter Berry - 2010details Description: Beginning Theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Hippocratic, religious, and secular ethics: The points of conflict.Robert M. Veatch - 2012 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33 (1):33-43.details The origins of professional ethical codes and oaths are explored. Their legitimacy and usefulness within the profession are questioned and an alternative ethical source is suggested. This source relies on a commonly shared, naturally knowable set of principles known as common morality. Download Export citation Bookmark 20 citations
Literature and medicine.R. S. Downie - 1991 - Journal of Medical Ethics 17 (2):93-98.details There are various ways in which medicine and literature interact, but this paper concentrates on the contribution which literature can make to 'whole person understanding'. Scientific understanding is concerned with seeing events and actions in terms of patterns or similarities. But 'whole person understanding' is concerned with uniqueness or with what it is for a given person to have an illness. Literature can in various ways develop this kind of understanding. Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
The souls of Black folk.W. E. B. Du Bois - 1987 - Oxford University Press.details 'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls of Black Folk is an impassioned, at times searing account of the situation of African (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 285 citations
Teaching ethics in the context of the medical humanities.R. A. Carson - 1994 - Journal of Medical Ethics 20 (4):235-238.details Careful reading of imaginative literature teaches an attentiveness fundamental to the care of the sick. Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations

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