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5African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed ConsentImprint: Springer. 2014.This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa. WHO statistics show that as much as 80% of the population in Africa uses traditional medicine for primary health care. With such a large constituency, it follows that ATM and its practices should receive more attention in bioethics. By comparing the ethics of care approach with the ATM approach to Relational Autonomy In Consent (RAIC), the authors argue that…Read more
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5Establishment of Comprehensive Primary Health Care as a Critical Function of South-South Cooperation to Enable Member Countries to Deal with Fundamental Health Issues and Health DisastersEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 9 (1): 77-97. 2018.
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7The Establishment of Comprehensive Primary Health Care as a Critical Function of the South-South Cooperation to Enable Member Countries Deal with Fundamental Health Issues andEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal. forthcoming.
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41Relational autonomy in informed consent (RAIC) as an ethics of care approach to the concept of informed consentMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21 (1): 101-111. 2018.The perspectives of the dominant Western ethical theories, have dominated the concepts of autonomy and informed consent for many years. Recently this dominant understanding has been challenged by ethics of care which, although, also emanates from the West presents a more nuanced concept: relational autonomy, which is more faithful to our human experience. By paying particular attention to relational autonomy, particularity and Process approach to ethical deliberations in ethics of care, this pap…Read more
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Duquesne UniversityRegular Faculty
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |