African Bioethics : An Indigenous Humanistic Perspective for Integrative Global Bioethical Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783330009363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 364 str.

Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu

Opis

A cursory glance at the historical evolution of bioethics as a discipline, reveals the emergence of a couple of trends, such as the advent of the quest for regional characterization, giving birth to culturally rooted bioethical perspectives. Majority of existing studies in this area of scholarship presents bioethics as though it were a field of enquiry that is the prerogative of the Western world, dominated by Western idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. There is also the perspective that African bioethics is a myth; a perspective that is furthered by ideological race classification, the slave trade and colonialism. Kanu, in this book, therefore, challenges this perspective, arguing for the existence of an African bioethics, for the enhancement of African authenticity and identity.

O autorze

Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony, O.S.A., Ph.D. is a renown scholar in the area of African Traditional Religion and African Philosophy. He has served in various capacities in the academic world, especially in Veritas University of Nigeria, Abuja, Saint Augustine's Major Seminary, Jos, The Augustinian Institute, Makurdi and Saint Albert the Great Institute.