South African Journal of Bioethics and Law (Dec 2016)

Climate change in Africa and the Middle East in light of health ubuntu and Islam

  • Thaddeus Metz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJBL.2016.v9i2.489
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 88 – 88

Abstract

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This article principally addresses the likely effects of global warming on health in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, northern Africa and the Middle East as well as how medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses, bioethicists and public health researchers, should respond to them in light of ubuntu and Islam, values characteristically held in those regions.