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- Challenges the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics
- Underlines the fact that the substance of ethics generally and bioethics / healthcare ethics specifically is much more expansive and inclusive than it is usually understood
- Invites ethicists and bioethicists to dialogue and research into Ubuntu and other similar indigenous cultures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advancing Global Bioethics (AGBIO, volume 1)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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St. Vincent’s Health Care, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Indigenous Ethics in Global Bioethics
Book Subtitle: Interpreting Ubuntu
Authors: Leonard Tumaini Chuwa
Series Title: Advancing Global Bioethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8625-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8624-9Published: 25 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0126-4Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8625-6Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2212-652X
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Regional and Cultural Studies