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Tanga 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMankon, Bamenda [Cameroon] $cLangaa Research & Pub. CIG$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9789956578153 311 08$a9956578150 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CHAPTER ONE. INTERVIEW WITH PROF. DR. G.B. TANGWA; CHAPTER TWO. BIOETHICS: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE; PRELIMINARY REMARKS; WESTERN CULTURE AND AFRICAN CULTURE; TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING; NSO' METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTIONS AND WORLDVIEW; NSO' POSITION ON SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES; EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE AND ABORTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER THREE. THE ABORTION DEBATE: ETHICS, CUSTOM AND LAW IN INTERACTION; PREAMBLE; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS ABORTION?; DELIBERATE ABORTION; THE EXTREMES; BETWEEN THE EXTREMES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES 327 $aCHAPTER FOUR. AFRICAN BIOETHICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTINTRODUCTION; AFRICAN DIVERSITIES; WESTERN CONCEPTIONS AND WORLD-VIEW; GLOBALISATION, WESTERNISATION AND BIOSECURITY; SOME SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS SCIENCE AND NATURE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND DANGERS; TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNAL VALUES; A CAUTIOUS PIECEMEAL APPROACH; A CONCLUDING PARABLE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER FIVE. AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; INTRODUCTION; ECO-BIO-ETHICS; AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE; MORALITY AND CULTURE; THE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF CULTURE; MORALITY AND RATIONALITY; DERIVATIVES OF MORALITY 327 $aAFRICAN DIVERSITIES AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKRESPECTFUL COEXISTENCE; WESTERN CONCEPTIONS AND WORLD-VIEW; SPIRIT OF OMNIVOROUS DISCOVERY; THE WESTERN WORLD AND OTHER WORLDS; BIOMEDICINE; HUMAN REPRODUCTION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT; SELF OWNERSHIP AND COMMERCE; POVERTY AND SHAME; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER SIX. RIGHTS AND RATIONING IN HEALTH CARE: SOME RANDOM CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE AFRICAN CONTEXT; PRELIMINARY REMARKS; INTRODUCTION; THE WESTERN SYSTEM; THE AFRICAN SYSTEM; MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE IN TRADITIONAL AFRICA; IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN HEALTH CARE 327 $aREFERENCESCHAPTER SEVEN. MORALITY AND CULTURE: ARE ETHICS CULTURE- DEPENDENT?; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; NO HUMAN CULTURE IS PERFECT; MORALITY AND CULTURES; KNOWLEDGE AND DANCING MASQUERADES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER EIGHT. BIOETHICS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE: A VOICE FROM THE MARGINS; CULTURE AND MORALITY; A DANCING MASQUERADE; THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY; SWITCHING CULTURAL LENSES; EQUALITY OF CULTURES; SOME TOPICAL EXAMPLES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER NINE. CIRCUMCISION: AN AFRICAN POINT OF VIEW; ABSTRACT; PREAMBLE; ONE PERSON'S SNAIL IS ANOTHER'S TERMITE 327 $aMYTH AND REALITYTHE LIMITATIONS OF CULTURES; CIRCUMCISION IN NSO' CULTURE; RATIONALIZATIONS FOR CIRCUMCISION; INFANT CIRCUMCISION; BACKGROUND AND RIDERS TO MY ARGUMENTS; MALE AND FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; SEMINAR IN CAMEROON; TREATING EQUALS UNEQUALLY; DISCLAIMERS AND QUALIFIERS; GIST OF MY ARGUMENT; FOR AND AGAINST CIRCUMCISION; SCIENCE AND MORALITY; A PERSONAL PREROGATIVE; RATIONAL PERSUASION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER TEN. FEMINISM AND FEMININITY: GENDER AND MOTHERHOOD IN AFRICA; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; FEMINISM AND DE-FEMINIZATION; NSO' CULTURE AS A PARADIGM 327 $aSTATUS OF WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL AFRICA 330 $aFor millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation. The problem, however, is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. 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