African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent
ISBN: 9783319058917
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer International Publishing
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Humanities Social Sciences and Law;

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.nbsp;By comparing the ethics of care approach with the ATM approach to Relational Autonomy In Consent (RAIC), the authorsnbsp;argue that the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent. This booknbsp;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.nbsp;Additionally,nbsp;thisnbsp;is the first known study that discusses healthcare ethics committees in ATM.


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