What Is “African Bioethics” as Used by Sub-Saharan African Authors: An Argumentative Literature Review of Articles on African Bioethics

Coleman, A

doi:10.4236/ojpp.2017.71003

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“…Exploring the problematic translation of bioethics between the Global North and South and between resource-rich and resource-poor countries, Miles and Laar (2018) argue that for such standards to be applicable globally, they must more directly engage the dialectical tension arising between cultural diversity and communitarianism. It is often said that western bioethics is excessively individualistic and that Africa, for example, is more communitarian (Beauchamp and Childress 2001;Coleman 2017;Gbadegesin 1993). These observations should serve as a reminder that standards of research quality may not be universal.…”

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Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana

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Research misconduct (RM) remains an important problem in health research despite decades of local, national, regional, and international efforts to eliminate it. The ultimate goal of every health research project, irrespective of setting, is to produce trustworthy findings to address local as well as global health issues. To be able to lead or participate meaningfully in international research collaborations, individual and institutional capacities for research integrity (RI) are paramount. Accordingly, this paper concerns itself not only with individuals' research skills but also with institutional and national policies and governance. Such policies and governance provide an ethical scaffold for the production of knowledge and structure incentives. This paper's operational definition of research therefore draws from Institute of Medicine's articulation of health research as an inquiry that aims to produce knowledge about the structure, processes, or effects of personal health services; and from an existing health systems framework. The paper reviews the research regulatory environment and the ethics apparatus in Ghana, and describes a project jointly undertaken by Ghanaian researchers in collaboration with New York University to assess the perceived adequacy of current institutional practices, opportunities, and incentives for promoting RI.

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“…It should, however, also be acknowledged that the African culture is much more diverse and heterogeneous in nature than Western cultures (Coleman, 2017). Twinomujuni (2017) suggests that Africa has different ethical perspectives, simply because African people have closer social behavioral connections than individual ones.…”

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Cultural Intelligence, Flourishing, and Thriving in the South African Work Context

Lezar

Walt

2023

Sage Open

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There is increased interest in the field of cultural intelligence (CI) internationally, owing to globalization. CI seems to be a particularly important field in a country such as South Africa, which is regarded as one of the most diverse societies in the world. In this article, the relationship between CI, flourishing at work, and thriving at work is analyzed in the context of South African organizations. The purpose of the article is to establish whether CI positively influences flourishing and thriving at work. A survey study was conducted, which was quantitative. The quantitative data was collected by means of a structured questionnaire, which was distributed to a final sample of 366 individuals working at South African organizations. The findings show that CI promotes flourishing at work, and they show that flourishing at work and thriving at work are related. They also indicate that emotional well-being and social well-being mediate the influence of CI on thriving at work, such that the indirect effects are positive and significant. The findings of the study indicate that CI is important in advancing mental health in the workplace. They also point to the importance of CI in a diverse country to promote flourishing and thriving at work. CI is thus important not only when leaders are on international assignments, but also in diverse settings. Through promotion of positive outcomes such as flourishing and thriving at work, organizations functioning in diverse settings are likely to become more effective and competitive.

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“…Others, Bamford (2019) and Widdows (2007), have pointed to the risk of a bioethical neocolonialism. Yet others, Coleman (2017) and Barugahare (2018), have expressed doubts about the use of expressions such as ‘African Bioethics’. This paper contributes to the existing literature by offering a view that can form the basis for an African framing and deliberation on ethical issues regarding persons and their moral status.…”

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African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues

Atuire

2022

Med Humanities

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This paper offers an African perspective on moral status grounded on an understanding of personhood. These concepts are key to understanding the differences in emphasis and the values at play when global ethical issues are analysed within the African context. Drawing from African philosophical reflections on the descriptive and normative concepts of personhood, I propose a dual notion of subject and object moral status. I explain how object moral status, duties owed to persons, is differently grounded with respect to subject moral status, which refers to communally directed agency. This distinction influences the African way of conceptualising and addressing ethical issues, where, without ignoring rights of persons, moral consideration about the agency of right bearers is often factored into ethical deliberation. As a practical example, I look at the debate surrounding legal access to safe abortion on the African continent. I suggest a Gadamerian approach to diffuse the tensions that sometimes arise between universalist advocates of rights and cultural decolonisationists.

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What Is “African Bioethics” as Used by Sub-Saharan African Authors: An Argumentative Literature Review of Articles on African Bioethics

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana

Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana

Cultural Intelligence, Flourishing, and Thriving in the South African Work Context

African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues

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