(Ebook) African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems by Godfrey B. Tangwa ISBN 9781527535626, 1527535622

(Ebook) African Perspectives on Some Contemporary Bioethics Problems by Godfrey B. Tangwa ISBN 9781527535626, 1527535622

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 moral status of embryonic stem cells; research with vulnerable human beings; and sexual and reproductive health in Africa. It explores a paradigm of how the universal and the particular may be blended, how global bioethics can remain firmly anchored and committed locally, regionally, continentally.