Clinical Trials and the African Person: A Quest to Re-Conceptualize Responsibility

By Ike Iyioke

Clinical Trials and the African Person aims to position the African notion of the self/person within the clinical trials context. As opposed to autonomy-based principlism, this other-regarding/communalist perspective is the preferred alternative model. This tactic draws further attention to the inadequacy of the principlist approach particularly in multicultural settings. It also engenders a rethink, stimulates interest, and re-assesses the failed assumptions of universal ethical principles.
As a novel attempt that runs against much of the prevailing (Euro-American) intellectual mood, this approach strives to introduce the African viewpoint by making explicit the import of the self in a re-contextualized arena, meaning within the community and a given milieu. Thus, research ethics must go beyond autonomy-based considerations for the individual, to rightly embed him/her within his/her community and the environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004366601
• ISBN13: 9789004366602
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.2"