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Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame.
For 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 press...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For 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. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain amount of leisure and comfort which the existential conditions of life on the African continent have not. |
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| Notas: | Status of women in traditional africa. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Referenceschapter 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. |
| ISBN: | 9789956579853 9956579858 |