Culture and the Principles of Biomedical Ethics

Kola Abimbola
University of Leicester

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb598

Abstract:

This paper examines the roles of culture in the principles of biomedical ethics.  Drawing on examples from African, Navajo and Western cultures, the paper maintains that various elements of culture are indispensable to the application of the principles of biomedical ethics.

Keywords:Principlism ,cultural goods of medicine ,personhood ,practical-beliefs ,en ,