Cornelius Ewuoso
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1242453 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cornelius Ewuoso |
| PRENOMES | Cornelius |
| SOBRENOME | Ewuoso |
| ASSINATURA | EWUOSO C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7219-5554 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Understanding Harm Generated by Analytic Technique Bias from the Afro-communitarian Perspective
This primarily normative article draws on three ideas – exclusivism, (transformative) inclusivism and incompleteness/conviviality – grounded in Afro-communitarian thinking – to argue that isolation/alienation, minimization, and essentialism are three distinct forms of harm that analytic technique bias (that results from training data and human actions) may generate. Since the healthcare context will be a leading consumer of these new techniques, …
Can a sovereign health research culture bolster Africa‘s involvement in global health?
Africa stands at a pivotal moment in its history, uniquely positioned to leverage its global medical evidence base to drive health innovation. Yet this potential is stifled by the continent's limited participation in generating health knowledge. To shape Africa's health destiny and address this challenge, the commentary proposes a sovereign health research culture that prioritizes ethics, domestication of research funding, sustainability, and har…
An Ethical Justification of Health Workers’ Strikes in Zimbabwe during Covid-19
How do global health research actors conceptualise inclusion in response to decolonisation calls? A scoping review
BACKGROUND: There are growing calls to decolonise global health research (GHR). One way actors respond to these calls is through placing greater emphasis on inclusion. However, there is persistent confusion concerning the inclusion forms that address the decolonisation calls in GHR, the way they do, as well as the specific areas that should be targeted (and why) for the inclusion work. METHODS: This scoping review contributes towards clarifying i…
Special Issue on Thaddeus Metz, A Relational Moral Theory
Digitalising Africa Is Critical for the Health of LGBTQ+ Persons
‘What is the harm of the digital divide that must be the object of digital inclusion work and strategies? A systematic review’
Background Many authors have published varying and sometimes competing accounts of the harm of the digital divide. These accounts are worth synthesizing in advance towards articulating the politics of the digital divide resistance.Methods This systematic review adopts the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) to synthesize evidence on the digital divide.Results Although the digital divide is not always a mora…
The language of the unheard
Purpose of research and novel approach Childhood measles vaccinations have been a topic of interest again recently following the multitude of measles outbreaks worldwide. While the large number of deaths accompanying these outbreaks is due to several reasons, vaccine hesitancy seems to be the biggest cause. Vaccine mandates remain a common measure for fostering vaccine uptake and maintaining herd immunity . Arguments for (and against) measles vac…
Adults aged 65 years and older in South Africa have a responsibility to vaccinate against influenza
In this article, we draw on the thinking about incompleteness and conviviality grounded in Afro‐communitarianism ethics from the Global South to argue that adults aged 65 years and above have a prima facie responsibility to vaccinate against influenza. Notably, adults aged 65 years and above have a duty of conviviality to act in ways that limit harm to them and others. This article is intrinsically valuable to promote epistemic justice, thereby c…
The Experience of Internal Exclusion Within the Context of Education in Africa
Although philosophers of education and educationists in Africa recognize that individuals can experience exclusion while included, the various ways this occurs have not been synthesized. Additionally, little consideration has been given to how the experience of internal exclusion can influence a more targeted inclusion work and strategies that respond to the quest to decolonize. This review adopts the scoping review extension of the Preferred Rep…
Does the South African government have a duty to fund influenza vaccination of adults 65 years and older
In this paper, we draw on the thinking about solidarity, reciprocity and distributive justice grounded in Afro-communitarian ethics from the Global South to argue for institutions, particularly the South African (SA) government, have a prima facie duty to foster influenza vaccine uptake for adults 65 years and older. Although we focus specifically on the South African government to defend our position, we believe that our argument extends to all …
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care
This manuscript draws on the moral norms arising from the nuanced accounts of epistemic (in)justice and social identity in relational autonomy to normatively assess and articulate the ethical problems associated with using AI in patient care in light of the Black Box problem. The article also describes how black-boxed AI may be used within the healthcare system. The manuscript highlights what needs to happen to align AI with the moral norms it dr…
Should institutions fund the feedback of individual findings in genomic research
The article argues the thesis that institutions have a prima facie obligation to fund the feedback of individual findings in genomic research conducted on the African continent by drawing arguments from an underexplored Afro-communitarian view of distributive justice and rights of researchers to be aided. Whilst some studies have explored how institutions have a duty to support return as a form of ancillary care or additional foreseeable service …
Webinar report
In July 2020, the H3Africa Ethics and Community Engagement (E&CE) Working Group organised a webinar with ethics committee members and biomedical researchers from various African institutions throughout the Continent to discuss the issue of whether and how biological samples for scientific research may be accessed by commercial entities when broad consents obtained for the samples are silent. 128 people including Research Ethics Committee members …
A Sino‐African perspective and the morality of procreation
Current studies of anti/‐natalism have been carried out mainly in the context of western philosophy. In this article, we offer a pro‐natalist view based on Confucian and Afro‐communitarian philosophy (Sino‐African ethics). Grounded in this Sino‐African perspective, we uphold that there is, at least, one reason to believe that not only is it morally permissible to procreate, but also that on some occasions, procreating is what morality prescribes.…
Black box problem and African views of trust
This article draws on the thinking about trust in African scholarship to describe the problems black box clinical artificial intelligence (AI) generates in health professional-patient relationships. Notably, under the assumption of a black box problem, the view of trust as inherently relational implies that health professionals cannot explain whether and how a clinical AI incorporates a patient’s values or leverages the same (in its outputs) to h…
Metz on Enhancement
Thaddeus Metz’s groundbreaking book A Relational Moral Theory provides a sophisticated moral theory hailing from the Global South. In this book, one of the theses he defends is that biotechnological enhancement is generally morally impermissible. This article, written for a book symposium on A Relational Moral Theory , primarily demonstrates how Metz’s criticisms presented in his book fail to convince. Furthermore, we explore some possible object…
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require
Germline Gene Editing Applications and the Afro-communitarian Ubuntu Philosophy
Germline gene editing has many applications or uses. This article focuses on specific applications. Specifically, the article draws on a moral norm arising from the thinking about the value of communal relationships in the Afro-communitarian ubuntu philosophy to interrogate key issues that specific applications of germline gene editing – for xeno-transplantation, agriculture and wildlife – raise. The article contends that the application of germl…
Decolonial health literature can increase our thinking about ethics dumping
This article draws on the underexplored or novel accounts of inclusion and the moral accounts of decolonization in African health decolonial literature to increase our understanding of how ethics dumping manifests in health research partnerships, and what more ought to be done to eliminate this phenomenon. African decolonial health literature proposes “inclusion that matters” – conceptualized as substantial, respectful and deep engagement with Af…
Addressing exploitation and inequities in open science
There are concerns that participation in open science will lead to various forms of exploitation – of researchers and scholars in low‐income countries and under‐resourced institutions. This article defends a contrary thesis and demonstrates the exact ways the underexplored notions of communal relationships, human dignity and social justice – and the normative principles to which they give rise – grounded in African philosophy can usefully address…
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging
Consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging prescribe that everyone ought to have an equal chance of living a typical lifespan, through the saving more life‐years (or saving most lives) principle, which emphasizes the youngest‐first principle and in some cases a lottery approach, often at the expense of the old and the sick. Although this approach has already been criticized by several bioethicists, this article provides a different k…
Solidarity, Afro-communitarianism, and Covid-19 vaccination
This paper appeals to the Afro-communitarian conceptions of solidarity to think critically about the duty (if any and in what ways) to vaccinate. Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx [1] describe solidarity as “enacted commitment to carry the costs (financial, social, emotional, and other contributions) of assisting others with whom a person or persons recognise similarity [...]
Ubuntu Philosophy and Mandatory Measles Vaccinations for Children
This is a primarily normative paper that draws on the thinking about friendliness grounded in an Afro-communitarian (Ubuntu) philosophy to argue for measles vaccine mandates for children below 6 years old under the assumptions that measles vaccines are safe for children in this age group, are widely available, and that children in this age-group experiences two-tiered vulnerability. Suppose the ethic of friendliness grounded in this Afro-communit…
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Beneficial Coercion in Psychiatric Care
There is a ‘catch 22’ situation about applying coercion in psychiatric care. Autonomous choices undeniably are rights of patients. However, emphasizing rights for a mentally‐ill patient could jeopardize the chances of the patient receiving care or endanger the public. Conversely, the beneficial effects of coercion are difficult to predict. Thus, applying coercion in psychiatric care requires delicate balancing of individual‐rights, individual wel…
Core aspects of ubuntu
Background. Ubuntu has been proposed as a useful alternative to current (Western) ethical frameworks for evaluating global bioethical issues, contributing theoretical diversity to the clinical context. However, the literature regarding this philosophy is often described as confusing, and is characterised by a number of competing interpretations. Objective. To arrive, by way of a systematic review, at a definition of ubuntu that encompasses the co…
Models for truth‐telling in physician‐patient encounters
Empirical studies have now established that many patients make clinical decisions based on models other than Anglo American model of truth‐telling and patient autonomy. Some scholars also add that current medical ethics frameworks and recent proposals for enhancing communication in health professional‐patient relationship have not adequately accommodated these models. In certain clinical contexts where health professional and patients are motivat…
Managing ethical challenges around misattributed parentage within the clinical context
This study argues the thesis that a set of guidelines ‐ firmly rooted in a particular interpretation of African moral theory, specifically, Ubuntu – will do a better job than current medical ethics frameworks, in addressing ethical challenges around misattributed parentage within the clinical context. Incidental information such as information with significant personal/health implications raises unique challenges for medical professionals. For ex…
Paltering and an African moral theory
To date, existing studies on paltering argue the thesis that paltering is never ethically justifiable; it is akin to deception, since one uses truthful statements with an intention to deceive. This study contends the above essential description and rather argues the thesis: it is a hasty generalisation to conclude that just because paltering has been employed in some fields such as the fields of negotiation and politics to deceive, it is therefor…
Ubuntu philosophy and the consensus regarding incidental findings in genomic research
Addressing the conflict between partner notification and patient confidentiality in serodiscordant relationships
This study evaluates the conflict between patient confidentiality and partner notification in sero‐discordant relationships, and argues the thesis that based on a theoretical formulation of Ubuntu, a health provider is obliged to facilitate friendly relationships in which individuals are true subjects and/or objects of communal friendship. In serodiscordant relationships, the health professional can fulfil this obligation by notifying “others” (p…
Patient confidentiality, the duty to protect, and psychotherapeutic care
This paper demonstrates how ubuntu relational philosophy may be used to ground beneficial coercive care without necessarily violating a patient's dignity. Specifically, it argues that ubuntu philosophy is a useful theory for developing necessary conditions for determining a patient's potential dangerousness; setting reasonable limits to the duty to protect; balancing the long-term good of providing unimpeded therapy for patients who need it with …
An African Relational Approach to Healthcare and Big Data Challenges
Transhumanism and African humanism
African humanism should be considered more in the theoretical discussion on transhumanism. Using an underexplored humanistic philosophy of Ubuntu , this article shows how the perspective from the global south provides guidelines for pursuing transhumanism without jeopardizing humanism. It argues that heuristics from African ( Ubuntu ) humanism can serve transhumanist goals. While transhumanism has attracted severe criticisms from bio‐conservative…
Khoikhoi perspectives on public health
The under-explored Khoikhoi indigenous values offer useful insights for resource allocation, confinement policies, vaccination and triaging strategies in the context of South Africa, and globally
A Relational Approach to Rationing in a Time of Pandemic
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging
Consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging prescribe that everyone ought to have an equal chance of living a typical lifespan, through the saving more life‐years (or saving most lives) principle, which emphasizes the youngest‐first principle and in some cases a lottery approach, often at the expense of the old and the sick. Although this approach has already been criticized by several bioethicists, this article provides a different k…
Solidarity, Afro-communitarianism, and Covid-19 vaccination
This paper appeals to the Afro-communitarian conceptions of solidarity to think critically about the duty (if any and in what ways) to vaccinate. Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx [1] describe solidarity as “enacted commitment to carry the costs (financial, social, emotional, and other contributions) of assisting others with whom a person or persons recognise similarity [...]
Ubuntu Philosophy and Mandatory Measles Vaccinations for Children
This is a primarily normative paper that draws on the thinking about friendliness grounded in an Afro-communitarian (Ubuntu) philosophy to argue for measles vaccine mandates for children below 6 years old under the assumptions that measles vaccines are safe for children in this age group, are widely available, and that children in this age-group experiences two-tiered vulnerability. Suppose the ethic of friendliness grounded in this Afro-communit…
Black box problem and African views of trust
This article draws on the thinking about trust in African scholarship to describe the problems black box clinical artificial intelligence (AI) generates in health professional-patient relationships. Notably, under the assumption of a black box problem, the view of trust as inherently relational implies that health professionals cannot explain whether and how a clinical AI incorporates a patient’s values or leverages the same (in its outputs) to h…
Metz on Enhancement
Thaddeus Metz’s groundbreaking book A Relational Moral Theory provides a sophisticated moral theory hailing from the Global South. In this book, one of the theses he defends is that biotechnological enhancement is generally morally impermissible. This article, written for a book symposium on A Relational Moral Theory , primarily demonstrates how Metz’s criticisms presented in his book fail to convince. Furthermore, we explore some possible object…
What type of inclusion does epistemic injustice require
Germline Gene Editing Applications and the Afro-communitarian Ubuntu Philosophy
Germline gene editing has many applications or uses. This article focuses on specific applications. Specifically, the article draws on a moral norm arising from the thinking about the value of communal relationships in the Afro-communitarian ubuntu philosophy to interrogate key issues that specific applications of germline gene editing – for xeno-transplantation, agriculture and wildlife – raise. The article contends that the application of germl…
Decolonial health literature can increase our thinking about ethics dumping
This article draws on the underexplored or novel accounts of inclusion and the moral accounts of decolonization in African health decolonial literature to increase our understanding of how ethics dumping manifests in health research partnerships, and what more ought to be done to eliminate this phenomenon. African decolonial health literature proposes “inclusion that matters” – conceptualized as substantial, respectful and deep engagement with Af…
Addressing exploitation and inequities in open science
There are concerns that participation in open science will lead to various forms of exploitation – of researchers and scholars in low‐income countries and under‐resourced institutions. This article defends a contrary thesis and demonstrates the exact ways the underexplored notions of communal relationships, human dignity and social justice – and the normative principles to which they give rise – grounded in African philosophy can usefully address…
Does the South African government have a duty to fund influenza vaccination of adults 65 years and older
In this paper, we draw on the thinking about solidarity, reciprocity and distributive justice grounded in Afro-communitarian ethics from the Global South to argue for institutions, particularly the South African (SA) government, have a prima facie duty to foster influenza vaccine uptake for adults 65 years and older. Although we focus specifically on the South African government to defend our position, we believe that our argument extends to all …
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care
This manuscript draws on the moral norms arising from the nuanced accounts of epistemic (in)justice and social identity in relational autonomy to normatively assess and articulate the ethical problems associated with using AI in patient care in light of the Black Box problem. The article also describes how black-boxed AI may be used within the healthcare system. The manuscript highlights what needs to happen to align AI with the moral norms it dr…
Should institutions fund the feedback of individual findings in genomic research
The article argues the thesis that institutions have a prima facie obligation to fund the feedback of individual findings in genomic research conducted on the African continent by drawing arguments from an underexplored Afro-communitarian view of distributive justice and rights of researchers to be aided. Whilst some studies have explored how institutions have a duty to support return as a form of ancillary care or additional foreseeable service …
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