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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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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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