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Published on: October 28, 2020
Anthropology, ethical dissonance, and the construction of the object
1a National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Centre of Research Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health, Society , Villejuif , France.
Abstract:
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.
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