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Toward an Africanized Bioethics Curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

KEVIN G. BEHRENS  and
C. S. WAREHAM
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Abstract

Although many bioethicists have given attention to the special health issues of Africa and to the ethics of research on the continent, only a handful have considered these issues through the lens of African moral thought. The question has been for the most part neglected as to what a distinctively African moral perspective would be for the analysis and teaching of bioethics issues. To address the oversight, the authors of this paper describe embarking on a project aimed at incorporating African moral perspective, values and philosophy into a teaching curriculum. The authors clarify the rationale for the project and discuss the strategies employed in Africanizing the bioethics curriculum.

Keywords

bioethics curriculumAfricamoral thought
Type
Bioethics Beyond Borders
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 103 - 113
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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