Anthropology, ethical dissonance, and the construction of the object.

Journal: Medical anthropology

Volume: 34

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2015

Affiliated Institutions:  a National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Centre of Research Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health, Society , Villejuif , France.

Abstract summary 

In this article, I discuss certain questions relating to the ethical difficulties faced by anthropologists when dealing with two different social groups and when one group holds a position of dominance over the other. In the first example, I draw on my work on doctor-patient relationships in France; in the second, on a study on reproduction in immigrant African families from Mali and Senegal, living in polygynous households in France. I use these examples to explore questions of positionality, beneficence, and potential harm. I show the choices I made in order to construct an epistemologically ethical object.

Authors & Co-authors:  Fainzang Sylvie S

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Authors :  1
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1080/01459740.2014.945080
SSN : 1545-5882
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Anthropology, Medical
Other Terms
doctor-patient relationship;ethical dissonance;polygyny;power relationship;stigmatization
Study Design
Study Approach
Country of Study
Mali
Publication Country
United States