Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Chapter 25 Global Health and Ethical Transculturalism
- Chapter 26 Giving Voice to African Thought in Medical Research Ethics
- Chapter 27 Interphilosophies Dialogue
- Chapter 28 Reframing Global Health Ethics Using Ecological, Indigenous, and Regenerative Lenses
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 26 - Giving Voice to African Thought in Medical Research Ethics
from Section 5 - The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Chapter 25 Global Health and Ethical Transculturalism
- Chapter 26 Giving Voice to African Thought in Medical Research Ethics
- Chapter 27 Interphilosophies Dialogue
- Chapter 28 Reframing Global Health Ethics Using Ecological, Indigenous, and Regenerative Lenses
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, I consider the virtual absence of an African voice and perspective in global discourses of medical research ethics against the backdrop of the high burden of diseases and epidemics on the continent and the fact that the continent is actually the scene of numerous and sundry medical research studies. I consider some reasons for this state of affairs as well as how the situation might be redressed. Using examples from the HIV/AIDS and Ebola epidemics, I attempt to show that the marginalization of Africa in medical research and medical research ethics is deliberate rather than accidental. It is causally related, in general terms, to a Eurocentric hegemony derived from colonialism and colonial indoctrination cum proselytization. I end by proposing seven theses for the critical reflection and appraisal of the reader.
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 339 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021