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CULTURE AND VOLUNTARY INFORMED CONSENT IN AFRICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Author(s) -
FRIMPONGMANSOH AUGUSTINE
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2006.00181.x
Subject(s) - informed consent , skepticism , research ethics , medical ethics , order (exchange) , psychology , political science , law , medicine , alternative medicine , business , epistemology , psychiatry , philosophy , pathology , finance
This paper discusses how to apply a collective decision model of the principle of voluntary informed consent in African communitarian culture, in a culturally sensitive way, in order to protect research candidates from potential exploitations and abuses. Dismissing cultural and ethical skepticism surrounding the global application of the principle of voluntary informed consent, the paper ultimately concludes that international collaboration on diagnostic and therapeutic medical research in Africa, especially HIV vaccine trials, is a moral imperative.