Moral status of embryonic stem cells: Perspective of an African villager

Bioethics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 449-457

  Tangwa, Godfrey B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b Pan African Bioethics Initiative ^*

Author keywords

African perspective; Consequentialist utilitarianism; Embryo; Human being; Moral status; Research; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ETHICAL THEORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORALITY; ONTOGENY; RESEARCH ETHICS;

AFRICA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; MORALS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34548391532     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00582.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. th Edition), Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 340-348.
2. Ibid, p. 343.
3. Godfrey B. Tangwa The African Perception of a Person: It's Implications for Bioethics Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, No. 5, 2000, pp. 39 43.
4. Bonie Steinbock, Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, and 'Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos'. (Unpublished Conference Manuscript, Santa Clara University 2002 Conference: 'On the Who, What, and Why of Moral Status').
5. John Harris, The Value of Life: An Introduction to Medical Ethics. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985, pp. 11-12.
6. In June 2002, at a public lecture at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, I listened to the well-known American ethicist, Arthur Caplan, arguing along these lines.