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Biography

Fr. Peter is a Spiritan from Nigeria. He did missionary service in Southern Ethiopia for nine years as a school principal, a community development agent, and as an evangelizer. From 2000 - 2005, Peter was a director of The Spiritan Postulancy in Nigeria, a post-high school institute where he also taught ethics, introduction to Bible etc. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in healthcare ethics from the Center for HealthCare Ethics (CHCE) Duquesne University from 2006-2013, as he was working as a campus minister at the Spiritan Campus Ministry at Duquesne.  His research areas include global bioethics, ethics of care, African bioethics, and environmental ethics. Now, Peter teaches undergraduate healthcare ethics courses in both theology and philosophy departments. 

Education

Ph.D., Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2013.
M.A., HealthCare Ethics, Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2008.
M.A., Religious Studies, Missionary Institute London, England, 1989. (Affiliate of Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven)
S.T.B. Systematic Theology, Missionary Institute London, England, 1989. (Affiliate of Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven)
B.Sc., Zoology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria, 1985.

School

Publications

Peter I. Osuji. "Who Am I to Judge?" A Revival of the Primacy of Conscience and the Impact of Culture in the Formation of Conscience." Asian Horizons Vol. 10 no. 4 (Dec 2016): 723-737.

Peter I. Osuji, "A Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Autonomy and Informed Medical Consent in Jewish and African Medical Ethics." SWEM Journal of Religion and Philosophy vol. 6 no. 1 (Dec. 2016): 31 - 44.

Peter I. Osuji, "An Examination of the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical Research in Africa in Light of Kantian Principles." SWEM Journal of Religion and Philosophy vol. 6 no. 1 (Dec. 2016): 1 - 21.

Peter Osuji, "Tortoise and Alia: Beyond a Nostalgia for Traditional Moral Education Method of the Igbo People of Nigeria" Medicine and Law Journal, Volume 34 No. 2 (June 2015) pp 229-250.

Peter I. Osuji, "Confidentiality" Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, [e-copy] edited by Dr. Henk A.M.J. ten Have, (Springer, 2015) http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2

Peter I. Osuji, "African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent." Vol. 3. Springer, 2014.

Peter I. Osuji. "Informed Consent in Western (USA) Medicine and in African (Igbo) Traditional Medicine (a Comparison)" Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology vol 24, (2012): 129-161. ISSN 0794-8670.

Dr. Osuji was awarded the  Alphons Loogman C.S.Sp., Faculty Research Grant in African Studies for his project Informed Refusal of Treatment in African (Igbo) Traditional Medicine in Imo State, Nigeria Rev (2015).