Auteur: Mbih Jerome Tosam

Mbih Jerome Tosam is senior lecturer and chair of philosophy at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. He obtained his Ph D in philosophy from the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, in 2011. His research interests are in the areas of bioethics, environmental ethics, philosophy of medicine, and African philosophy. Some of his recent publications include: “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo: a Critique of Peter Singer’s Conception of the Potentiality of the Embryo, ”  International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 3, no. 2, (2015): 39-47;  Philosophy in Culture: Perspectives  from Western and African Culture, co-edited with Peter Takov (Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa 2016); and “Global Emerging Pathogens, Poverty, and Vulnerability: An Ethical Analysis” in ed. Godfrey B. Tangwa et al.,   Socio-cultural Dimensions of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Africa: An  Indigenous Response to Deadly Epidemics (Springer, 2019).