Dr. Augustine Yaw Frimpong-Mansoh bio

• Interim Chair
• Director and Advisor, Healthcare Ethics and Policy Minor
• Coordinator, Philosophy Co-ops
• Faculty Sponsor, Ethics
• Bowl and Phi Sigma Tau National Philosophy Honor Society

Contact Information

• Office: 217D & 240 Landrum
• Phone: 572-7546 
• FAX: (859) 572-6086
• Email: frimpongma1@nku.edu

Research & Teaching Interests

Bioethics and Health Care Ethics (cf. African Perspectives); African Philosophy; Philosophy of Race; Environmental Philosophy; Philosophy and Information Information Technology; Philosophy of War, Peace and
Nonviolence; Global Ethics; History of Modern Philosophy (cf. David Hume)

Current Research

My current research is primarily in the areas of African bioethics, African healthcare ethics, and African research ethics. I examine indigenous African communal (i.e. communitarian or community-centered) ethical and metaphysical beliefs, norms, and practices on health and health care as a foundational context for decolonized understanding and evaluation of the ethics and morality of contemporary practices and policies in medical research and health care in African societies.  

Academic Degrees

• Ph. D. University of Alberta, Canada
• M. A. University of Windsor, Canada.
• B.A. (Honors). University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Courses

• PHI 200 Ethics
• PHI 220 Health Care Ethics
• PHI 302 Ethics and Scientific Research
• PHI 310 Information Ethics
• PHI 320 Social and Political Philosophy
• PHI 322 Philosophy and Race
• PHI 323 Peace and War
• PHI 324 African Philosophy
• PHI 330 Philosophy and Law
• PHI 360 Environmental Philosophy 
• PHI 375 Ethical Theory

  Academic Accolades

• Master Adviser (2014)
• Emerging Leaders Program 2021 Cohort (American Association of Colleges and Universities, AASCU)

   Selected Publications

• Frimpong-Mansoh, A. Y. Book chapter, “Stand up for the Marginalized and Vulnerable.” In Joan Ferrante and Chris Caldeira (Eds.) How to Respond in a Pandemic:  25 Ideas from 25 Disciplines of Study. SAGE Publishing, 2020. 
• Frimpong-Mansoh, A. Y. and Atuire, C. (Eds.) (2018). Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis. Vernon Press. 
• Frimpong-Mansoh, A. Y. (2018). Bioethics: Traditional African Perspective. In Frimpong-Mansoh, Y. and Atuire, C. (Eds.) Bioethics in Africa: Theories and Praxis. Vernon Press. 
• Frimpong-Mansoh, A. Y. (2012. Do Repentance and Change of Character Excuse Wrongdoing?” International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, vol 2.
• Frimpong-Mansoh, A. Y. (2008). Culture and Voluntary Informed Consent in African Health Care Systems. Developing World Bioethics, 8(2):104-14.