title: [The teaching of bioethics: the North African experience].
abstract: To preserve ethics' universal dimension, paradoxically it is necessary to develop the teaching of it in its regional context and as close as possible to practices. In this respect, the experience of the North African countries offers a very pertinent lesson. If we want to ensure that biomedical ethics is not considered as anachronistic, it must be agreed that the teaching of bioethics needs a local scientific dynamic and a democratic basis in the management of the debate around the issues raised. The imperative of a modern, democratic State,founded on law, is capital for a teaching free of any whiff of anything sectarian, ideological, religious, scientist or materialistic.
authors.affiliation: Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques/Université d'Oran, Algérie. abdalhafidh_ossoukine@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Abdelhafid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ossoukine
mesh_terms: D000352:Africa, Northern; D001675:Bioethics / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration*