Only for Those with Nerves of Steel - The Issue of Ethical and Moral Relativism in Medical Ethnographies Cover Image

Nije za one slabih živaca - pitanja etičnog i moralnog relativizma u medicinskim etnografijama
Only for Those with Nerves of Steel - The Issue of Ethical and Moral Relativism in Medical Ethnographies

Author(s): Tanja Bukovčan
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Health and medicine and law, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: medical pluralism; medical ethnographies; ethical relativism; research ethics; applied research; activism;

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of this article is to present the basic issues of ethics and morality in medical anthropology, or in the writing of medical ethnographies, but also to analyze and discuss the methodology the author used during the research of medical pluralism in Croatia in the period from 2005 to 2008. The article deals with the issues of ethics and applicability of research in medical anthropology.

  • Issue Year: 40/2010
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 45-56
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian