RT Article
T1 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Lessons from Africa: Ubuntu, solidarity, dignity, kinship, and humility
JF Bioethics
VO 38
IS 1
SP 5
OP 10
A1 Jecker, Nancy S.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1876936711
AB This paper addresses bioethics in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The Introduction (Section 1) highlights that at the field's inception, infectiousness was not front and center. Instead, infectious disease was widely perceived as having been conquered. This made it possible for bioethicists to center values such as individual autonomy, informed consent, and a statist conception of justice. Section 2 urges shifting to values more fitting for the moment the world is in. To find these, it directs attention to the Global South, and in particular, Africa, and to the values of ubuntu, solidarity, dignity, kinship, and humility. The paper concludes (in Section 3) that 21st-century challenges facing bioethics are increasingly global, and calls on bioethicists themselves to be more globally inclusive in their approaches.
K1 Solidarity
K1 infectious disease
K1 Humility
K1 global bioethics
K1 Covid-19
K1 African Ethics
DO 10.1111/bioe.13253