Ethics and Anthropology: Facing Future Issues in Human Biology, Globalism, and Cultural Property (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801868351 ISBN 13: 9780801868351

Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 2002

Synopsis

Over the past 30 years, anthropologists have moved into diverse workplaces, including private and public settings, that raise new issues for anthropology as a discipline, as well as for the discourse on science more generally. In the context of increasing globalization, the articulation of new ethical dilemmas around such issues as technology, indigenous knowledge and rights, governmental regulation, and bioethics among others, can inform and shape scientific public policy. The authors in this volume work in traditional research centers and universities as well as in private and public sectors, and across specialties that range from medical anthropology and social medicine to archaeology and cyberspace. They explore the dimensions of an "ethical anthropology" in today's world, and in the unique contribution of anthropology to the sciences.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne-Marie Cantwell is at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Eva Friedlander is at New York University. Madeleine Tramm is at Blair & Burke.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0801868351
• ISBN 13: 9780801868351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Cantwell Professor Anne-Marie, Friedlander Professor Eva, Tramm Professor Madeleine L.