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Comparative Analysis of ATM with Ethics of Care

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African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent

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This chapter provides a comparative interpretation of ATM with ethics of care. The analysis provides an explanation of ATM as adopting a relational approach to informed consent (RAIC). In this discussion, the ethics of care movement provides the hermeneutic to enlighten the significance of the ATM approach as a legitimate model of RAIC. In order words, ATM exhibits practices similar to those of ethics of care, such as focusing on relationships, maintaining that persons are relational beings who are socially constituted in a community, and exercising autonomy in relationships with others in the community.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The diviners and the mediums are relied upon to uncover mystical or spiritual causes of a particular sickness.

  2. 2.

    Bluuru gives rise to common illnesses such as malaria, colds, arthritis, skin problems, respiratory disorders etc. Fulani believe that this disorder is peculiar to them because of their vulnerability to the humidity of Sub-Saharan Africa.

  3. 3.

    Ojigbo narrates how the colonial government brought about the loss of this trust.

  4. 4.

    See Chapter Two.

  5. 5.

    Both Assante and Ewe are subgroups of Akan.

  6. 6.

    See Sect. 4 B2 above.

  7. 7.

    See Chapter Three above.

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Ikechukwu Osuji, P. (2014). Comparative Analysis of ATM with Ethics of Care. In: African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05891-7_4

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