African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent: 3 (Advancing Global Bioethics)

Ikechukwu Osuji, Peter

ISBN 10: 3319380095 / ISBN 13: 9783319380094

Published by Springer, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent: 3 (Advancing Global Bioethics)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319380095
• ISBN 13: 9783319380094
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa. WHO statistics show that as much as 80% of the population in Africa uses traditional medicine for primary health care. With such a large constituency, it follows that ATM and its practices should receive more attention in bioethics. By comparing the ethics of care approach with the ATM approach to Relational Autonomy In Consent (RAIC), the authors argue that the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent. This book is distinctive insofar as it employs the ethics of care as a hermeneutic to interpret ATM. The analysis examines the ethics of care movement in Western bioethics to explore its relational approach to informed consent. Additionally, this is the first known study that discusses healthcare ethics committees in ATM.