Elements of african bioethics in a western frame / Godfrey B. Tanga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tangwa, Godfrey B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda [Cameroon] : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 pressures of their situation. The problem, however, is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain amount of leisure and comfort which the existential conditions of life on the African continent have not

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

REFERENCESCHAPTER SEVEN. MORALITY AND CULTURE: ARE ETHICS CULTURE- DEPENDENT?; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; NO HUMAN CULTURE IS PERFECT; MORALITY AND CULTURES; KNOWLEDGE AND DANCING MASQUERADES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER EIGHT. BIOETHICS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE: A VOICE FROM THE MARGINS; CULTURE AND MORALITY; A DANCING MASQUERADE; THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY; SWITCHING CULTURAL LENSES; EQUALITY OF CULTURES; SOME TOPICAL EXAMPLES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER NINE. CIRCUMCISION: AN AFRICAN POINT OF VIEW; ABSTRACT; PREAMBLE; ONE PERSON'S SNAIL IS ANOTHER'S TERMITE

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

STATUS OF WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL AFRICA

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ISBN:

9786613004840

9781283004848

1283004844

9789956579853

9956579858

9789956578832

9956578835

9789956578566

9956578568

OCLC:

830165187