Embedding ethics

Embedding ethics

by Meskell, Lynn Pels, Peter

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"Embedding Ethics questions why ethics have been divorced from scientific expertise. Invoking different disciplinary practices from biological, archaeological, cultural and linguistic anthropology contributors show how ethics should be resituated at the heart of, rather than exterior to, scientific activity."--Jacket.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Embedding ethics / edited by Lynn Meskell and Peter Pels.

Summary

"Embedding Ethics questions why ethics have been divorced from scientific expertise. Invoking different disciplinary practices from biological, archaeological, cultural and linguistic anthropology contributors show how ethics should be resituated at the heart of, rather than exterior to, scientific activity."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.
  • Edition:English ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berg
  • Place of Publication:Oxford, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 326 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1845200470, 9781845200473, 1845200462, 9781845200466
  • oclc:ocm56964656
  • LC Classification:GN33.6
  • Dewey Decimal:174/.9301

Table of Contents

Your body, my property : the problem of colonial genetics in a postcolonial world / Jonathan Marks -- The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardship / Alison Wylie -- "Where there aren't no ten commandments" : redefining ethics during the darkness in El Dorado scandal / Peter Pels -- Anthropology's Malaysian interlocutors : toward a cosmopolitan ethics of anthropological practice / Joel S. Kahn -- Sites of violence : terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell -- Pain, politics, and the epistemological ethics of anthropological disciplinarity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Situational ethics and engaged practice : the case of archaeology in Africa / Martin Hall -- A science of the gray : Malthus, Marx, and the ethics of studying crop biotechnology / Glenn Davis Stone -- The morality of exhibiting Indians / Craig Howe -- Documenting ethics / Don Brenneis -- Solid histories for fragile nations : archaeology as cultural patrimony / Rosemary A. Joyce.

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