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Title: | African Bioethics: An Explanatory Discourse |
Author: | Murove, Munyaradzi Felix |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | Journal for the Study of Religion |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 16-36 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | ethics traditional medicine health care Religion and Witchcraft |
Abstract: | The silence of the majority of Africans on African bioethics can be attributed to the condemnation of African traditional healing by advocates of Western medical practices. The urgency of a discourse on African bioethics, however, emanates from the observation that the inherited, Western health care system does not provide an adequate understanding of life, death, health and disease within the African context. In most institutions of higher learning, current discourse on bioethics has remained trapped in Western categories of thought. But since the majority of the African population relies on African traditional doctors for most of their health needs, an authentic discourse on bioethics in Africa must seriously consider the hold which African traditional health care practice has on African people. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |