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Front Matter -- / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Contents / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Preface / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Acknowledgements / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- List of Illustrations / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- List of Abbreviations/Terms / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Introduction / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Clinical Trials / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Who is Responsible for Human Subjects (When Experiments Travel)? / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Transgenic Mosquitoes Project as Model / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Responsibility / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Being Responsible / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Personhood / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Re-Conceiving Responsibility: A Role For Personhood in African Thought / Ike Valentine Iyioke -- Back Matter -- Index / Ike Valentine Iyioke.

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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.

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