Holistic Bioethics

In pursuing a holistic bioethics while dialoguing with different sciences' appreciation of moral affinities between human and nonhuman entities Dr. Buyondo argues for a minimum moral status for nonhuman entities. The minimum normative basics of approaches to biomedical ethics are at the very least not distinctive to either human animals or nonhuman animals only.The investigation builds further on the African understanding of life--where no creation is lifeless. In establishing a more inclusive functional bioethics the African approach goes further than biocentrism ecocentrism and holism to ground an inclusive African holistic moral egalitarianism suggesting that all forces and all created things have life. We are not emphasizing how every system and creature command equal respect; rather everything has life commands respect and moral concern as a minimum imperative within a Black African holistic approach to bioethics. However holistic bioethics can neither be Western nor an African invention that people of other cultures only admire from a distance. Moreover holistic bioethics doesn't offer the last word on the ethics of nonhuman animals holistic anamnetic solidarity the relational Other and intercultural theological bioethics.