Cultural diversity is crucial for African neuroethics

Olivia P. Matshabane (), Lihle Mgweba-Bewana, Caesar A. Atuire, Jantina Vries and Laura M. Koehly
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Olivia P. Matshabane: National Institutes of Health
Lihle Mgweba-Bewana: University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital
Caesar A. Atuire: University of Ghana
Jantina Vries: University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital
Laura M. Koehly: National Institutes of Health

Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, vol. 6, issue 9, 1185-1187

Abstract: Mental health, neuroscience and neuroethics researchers must engage local African communities to enable discourses on cultural understandings of mental illness. To ensure that these engagements are both ethical and innovative, they must be facilitated with cultural competence and humility, because serious consideration of different contextual and local factors is critical.

Date: 2022
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