CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: INFORMED CONSENT IN A COMMUNAL CULTURE -- 1.1. Dominant Cultural Perspectives of Informed Consent -- 1.2. Informed Consent in a Communal Culture -- 1.3. Focusing On ATM -- 1.4. Scope of the Study -- 1.5. Focusing on Ethics of Care -- 1.6. Focusing on Ethics Committee -- 2. CHAPTER TWO- HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE WESTERN BIOETHICS APPROACH TO AUTONOMY -- 2.1. History and Origin of Informed Consent -- 2.1.1. Legal Origin -- 2.1.2. Bioethical Origin -- 2.1.3. Reaction against Paternalism -- 2.2. Autonomy and Informed Consent -- 2.2.1. Meaning of Autonomy.-  2.2.2. Informed Consent and the Principle of Respect for Autonomy -- 2.2.3. Autonomy and Trust -- 2.3. The Concept of Person and Autonomy -- 2.3.1. Individual Independence -- 2.3.2. Reason as Opposed to Emotion -- 2.3.3. Individual Patient Rights -- 2.3.4. Individual Autonomy.- 2.3.5. Subjective Conception of the Good -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. CHAPTER THREE- SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF ETHICS OF CARE -- 3.1. The History and Origin of Ethics of Care -- 3.1.1. Feminist Movement and Some Male Voices -- 3.1.2. Ethics of Care and Alternative Feminist Moral Theories -- 3.2.  The Meaning of Ethics of Care -- 3.2.1. Care as Labor -- 3.2.2. Care as Practice and Value -- 3.2.3. Caring Relations -- 3.2.4. Care as Justice -- 3.2.5. Criticism of Ethics of Care -- 3.3.  The Concept of Person and Autonomy -- 3.3.1. Relational Being, Family, and the Patient -- 3.3.1.1. Ethics of Care Critique of the Social Contract Theories -- 3.3.1.2. The Social Contract Theories -- 3.3.1.3. The Critique -- 3.3.2. The Ethics of Care Concept of Dependency and Interdependency of Persons and Human Existence -- 3.3.3. The Ethics of Care Concept of Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent (RAIC) -- 3.3.4. Emotion as Essential Part of Human Nature in Moral Decision-Making -- 3.3.5. The Ethics of Care Concept of Individual Patient Rights -- 3.4.  Summary -- 4. CHAPTER FOUR- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ATM WITH ETHICS OF CARE -- 4.1. An Overview of ATM -- 4.1.1. Meaning and History and Interesting Developments in ATM -- 4.1.1.1. Meaning and History of ATM -- 4.1.1.2. Interesting Developments in ATM -- 4.1.2. ATM and African Traditional Religion (ATR) -- 4.1.2.1. African Traditional Religion (ATR) -- 4.1.2.2. Community in Understanding ATM & ATR -- 4.1.3. ATM Doctors: Types, Vocation and Training -- 4.1.3.1. Diviners -- 4.1.3.2. Herbalists -- 4.1.3.3. Traditional birth attendants (TBA) -- 4.1.3.4. Priests Healers -- 4.1.3.5. Traditional Surgeons -- 4.1.4. Health and Illness: the Need to Seek Healing -- 4.1.4.1. Concept of Health & Illness -- 4.1.4.2. The Need to Seek Healing -- 4.1.5. Decision-Making in Traditional African Societies -- 4.1.5.1. Decision-making among the Akan -- 4.1.5.2. Decision-making among the Hausa-Fulani -- 4.1.5.3. Decision-making among the Igbo -- 4.1.5.4. Decision-making among the Yoruba -- 4.1.5.5. Decision-Making and Women -- 4.2. The Concept of Person and Autonomy: ATM and Ethics of Care Contrasted -- 4.2.1. Relational Being: Individual (Patient) Versus Community.-  4.2.2. The African Concept of Dependency and Interdependency of Person and Human Existence -- 4.2.3. The African Concept of Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent (RAIC) -- 4.2.4. Support for the Objective Concept of the (Common) Good -- 4.2.5. The African Concept of Individual Patient Rights -- 4.3. Summary -- 5. CHAPTER FIVE- APPLIED ANALYSIS OF ATM'S RAIC TO HEALTHCARE ETHICS COMMITTEES IN AFRICA -- 5.1. General Description of Healthcare Ethics Committees -- 5.2. Situation of Healthcare Ethics Committees in Africa -- 5.2.1. A Brief History of Ethics Committees in Africa -- 5.2.2. Healthcare Ethics Committees in Hospitals -- 5.2.3. Healthcare Ethics Committees in ATM -- 5.2.4. The Type of HEC Suitable for ATM -- 5.2.4.1. Being Organizationally Integrated -- 5.2.4.2. Being Proactive and Using Preventive Ethics -- 5.2.4.3. Ethical Leadership -- 5.2.4.4. Being Accountable -- 5.3. The Implications of Applying RAIC to Healthcare Ethics Committees in Africa on Decision-Making Process for Informed Consent of the Patient -- 5.3.1. Integration of Elements of Traditional Decision-Making Methods into Healthcare Ethics Committees -- 5.3.2. A Flexible Understanding of Confidentiality -- 5.3.3. A Nuanced Understanding of Advance Directive -- 5.3.4. Emphasis on Solidarity -- 5.4. Summary -- 6. CHAPTER SIX- CONCLUSION -- 6.1. Grand Summary.-  6.2. Contribution of the Book -- 6.3. RAIC and Global Bioethics -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.