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A Quest to Re-Conceptualize Responsibility
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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.
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.
A Quest to Re-Conceptualize Responsibility
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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.
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.
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This chapter claims that research ethics in Africa must be ‘home-grown’ and should speak to local cultural needs of the people. While being mindful of the standards that meet international orthodoxy, we must however advocate for a culturally sensitive research integrity protocol that integrates standard research ethics as well as maintain the African communal mantra. As Metz (2020) affirms, Indigenous African values are characteristically communitarian. This is to say that African values tend to prescribe the protection and promotion of harmony and cohesion through consensus building, and interdependence within the family, community, clan, culture, or nation. Even though, according to Metz (2020), “philosophers disagree about whether this normative focus is good for its own sake …, or valuable merely as a means towards something else,” Africa’s communal character is undeniable. It is this understanding that encourages the establishment and advancement of an authentic framework of ethical principles that better address the cultural needs of Africans as well as local researchers (and anyone coming to conduct research in Africa). Also, researchers operating within this framework would have the added advantage of exploring interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and community-based participatory research.
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