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African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent

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Authors:
  1. Peter Ikechukwu Osuji

    1. Center for Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

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  • Focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM)
  • Argues that the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent
  • Employs the ethics of care as a hermeneutic to interpret ATM
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 3)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Informed Consent in a Communal Culture

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 1-8

  3. Historical Context of the Western Bioethics Approach to Autonomy

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 9-52

  4. Systematic Analysis of Ethics of Care

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 53-92

  5. Comparative Analysis of ATM with Ethics of Care

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 93-150

  6. Applied Analysis of ATM’S RAIC to Healthcare Ethics Committees in Africa

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 151-181

  7. Conclusion

    • Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
    Pages 183-201

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 203-206
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About this book

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 the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent. This book is distinctive insofar as it employs the ethics of care as a hermeneutic to interpret ATM. The analysis examines the ethics of care movement in Western bioethics to explore its relational approach to informed consent. Additionally, this is the first known study that discusses healthcare ethics committees in ATM.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Peter Ikechukwu Osuji

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent

  • Authors: Peter Ikechukwu Osuji

  • Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05891-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05890-0Published: 05 August 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38009-4Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05891-7Published: 18 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2212-652X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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