Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER ONE. INTERVIEW WITH PROF. DR. G.B. TANGWA -- CHAPTER TWO. BIOETHICS: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE -- PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- WESTERN CULTURE AND AFRICAN CULTURE -- TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING -- NSO' METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTIONS AND WORLDVIEW -- NSO' POSITION ON SOME BIOETHICAL ISSUES -- EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE AND ABORTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THREE. THE ABORTION DEBATE: ETHICS, CUSTOM AND LAW IN INTERACTION -- PREAMBLE -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS ABORTION? -- DELIBERATE ABORTION -- THE EXTREMES -- BETWEEN THE EXTREMES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR. AFRICAN BIOETHICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- AFRICAN DIVERSITIES -- WESTERN CONCEPTIONS AND WORLD-VIEW -- GLOBALISATION, WESTERNISATION AND BIOSECURITY -- SOME SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS SCIENCE AND NATURE -- POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND DANGERS -- TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNAL VALUES -- A CAUTIOUS PIECEMEAL APPROACH -- A CONCLUDING PARABLE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FIVE. AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES ON BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- INTRODUCTION -- ECO-BIO-ETHICS -- AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE -- MORALITY AND CULTURE -- THE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES OF CULTURE -- MORALITY AND RATIONALITY -- DERIVATIVES OF MORALITY -- AFRICAN DIVERSITIES AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- RESPECTFUL COEXISTENCE -- WESTERN CONCEPTIONS AND WORLD-VIEW -- SPIRIT OF OMNIVOROUS DISCOVERY -- THE WESTERN WORLD AND OTHER WORLDS -- BIOMEDICINE -- HUMAN REPRODUCTION -- HANDICAPPED PERSONS -- TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- SELF OWNERSHIP AND COMMERCE -- POVERTY AND SHAME -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SIX. RIGHTS AND RATIONING IN HEALTH CARE: SOME RANDOM CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE AFRICAN CONTEXT -- PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE WESTERN SYSTEM -- THE AFRICAN SYSTEM -- MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE IN TRADITIONAL AFRICA.

IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN HEALTH CARE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SEVEN. MORALITY AND CULTURE: ARE ETHICS CULTURE- DEPENDENT? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- NO HUMAN CULTURE IS PERFECT -- MORALITY AND CULTURES -- KNOWLEDGE AND DANCING MASQUERADES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT. BIOETHICS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE: A VOICE FROM THE MARGINS -- CULTURE AND MORALITY -- A DANCING MASQUERADE -- THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY -- SWITCHING CULTURAL LENSES -- EQUALITY OF CULTURES -- SOME TOPICAL EXAMPLES -- BIOTECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER NINE. CIRCUMCISION: AN AFRICAN POINT OF VIEW -- ABSTRACT -- PREAMBLE -- ONE PERSON'S SNAIL IS ANOTHER'S TERMITE -- MYTH AND REALITY -- THE LIMITATIONS OF CULTURES -- CIRCUMCISION IN NSO' CULTURE -- RATIONALIZATIONS FOR CIRCUMCISION -- INFANT CIRCUMCISION -- BACKGROUND AND RIDERS TO MY ARGUMENTS -- MALE AND FEMALE CIRCUMCISION -- SEMINAR IN CAMEROON -- TREATING EQUALS UNEQUALLY -- DISCLAIMERS AND QUALIFIERS -- GIST OF MY ARGUMENT -- FOR AND AGAINST CIRCUMCISION -- SCIENCE AND MORALITY -- A PERSONAL PREROGATIVE -- RATIONAL PERSUASION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TEN. FEMINISM AND FEMININITY: GENDER AND MOTHERHOOD IN AFRICA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- FEMINISM AND DE-FEMINIZATION -- NSO' CULTURE AS A PARADIGM -- STATUS OF WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL AFRICA -- WOMEN OF THE BAMENDA GRASSFIELDS -- THE MATERNAL CULT IN NSO' CULTURE -- AFRICAN WOMEN AND WESTERN INFLUENCES -- AFRICAN WOMEN WRITERS -- THE CHARACTER AND TONE OF WESTERN FEMINISM -- AFRICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS FOR WOMAN EMPOWERMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. BIOETHICS, CUSTOMS AND LAWS IN THE PRESENT SITUATION OF AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA -- COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL AFRICA -- CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER TWELVE. BIOETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH FROM THE POINT OF VIEW AND PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS -- RESPECTFUL COEXISTENCE -- WESTERN CONCEPTIONS AND WORLDVIEW -- THE WESTERN WORLD AND OTHER WORLDS -- BIOMEDICINE AND ETHICAL GUIDELINES -- AFRICA AND HIV/AIDS VACCINE RESEARCH -- HIV/AIDS AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES/EVIDENCE -- THE KISSINGER REPORT -- SOUTH AFRICA IN THE APARTHEID ERA -- SOUTH AFRICAN AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE -- TRADITIONAL AFRICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD DISEASE AND COMMERCE -- VANHIVAX IN CAMEROON -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. IS BIOETHICS LOVE OF LIFE? AN AFRICAN VIEW- POINT -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. GLOBALISATION OR WESTERNISATION? ETHICAL CONCERNS IN THE WHOLE BIO-BUSINESS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALISATION -- WESTERNISATION -- MORALITY -- A GOOD WILL -- BIOETHICS -- BIODIVERSITY -- GLOBALISATION AND WESTERNISATION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. LIVING IN A WORLD OF DIVERSITY AND VARIETY -- Introduction -- Western Culture and the Industrial Revolution -- Human Limitations and Myth-Making -- The Genesis Story -- The Calabash of Wisdom -- Conclusions -- Back Cover.