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  1. Existentialism and Humanism.Jean Paul Sartre & Philip Mairet - 1948 - Methuen.
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  • Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project.Michael Jackson - 1998 - University of Chicago Press.
    The postmodern opposition between theory and lived reality has led in part to an anthropological turn to "dialogic" or "reflexive" approaches. Michael Jackson claims these approaches are hardly radical as they still drift into such abstractions as "society" or "culture." His Minima Ethnographica proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life. Written in the style of Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia, Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical (...)
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  • Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment.Paul Rabinow - 2003 - Princeton University Press.
    Paul Rabinow brings together years of distinguished work in this authoritative volume that seeks to reinvigorate the human sciences. Specifically, he assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment"--To assess how intellectual work is currently conducted and how it might change.
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  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.Max Weber, Talcott Parsons & R. H. Tawney - 2003 - Courier Corporation.
    The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over (...)
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  • Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought.Nikolas Rose, Professor Nikolas Rose & Rose - 1999 - Cambridge University Press.
    Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to political power and analyses the government of conduct. He analyses the role of expertise, the politics of numbers, technologies of economic management and the political uses of space. He illuminates the relation of this approach to contemporary theories of 'risk society' and 'the sociology (...)
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  • Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine.Arthur Kleinman - 1995 - Univ of California Press.
    This text explores the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change. The book studies the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience, finding that many health problems, for example the trauma of violence or depression in the course of chronic pain, are less individual medical problems than interpersonal experiences of social suffering. It argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine, one that embraces the infrapolitical context of illness, responses to (...)
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  • The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines.Margaret Lock - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):63-91.
    The alienation of body parts and their transformation into commodities raises questions about ownership, property rights, and about possible violation of the moral order. This article focuses on the `social life' of objects, including body parts, and the multiple meanings attached to them that are made visible in systems of exchange. The transformation of DNA obtained in blood samples into immortalized cell lines for use in the Human Genome Diversity Project is introduced as an illustration of contested commodification. The meanings (...)
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  • Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking.Nancy Scheper-Hughes - 2001 - Body and Society 7 (2-3):31-62.
    This article draws on a five-year, multi-sited transnational research project on the global traffic in human organs, tissues, and body parts from the living as well as from the dead as a misrecognized form of human sacrifice. Capitalist expansion and the spread of advanced medical and surgical techniques and developments in biotechnology have incited new tastes and traffic in the skin, bones, blood, organs, tissues, marrow and reproductive and genetic marginalized other. Examples drawn from recent ethnographic research in Israel, the (...)
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  • John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics [brief sample].Steven Fesmire - 2003 - Indiana University Press.
    While examining the important role of imagination in making moral judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. Steven Fesmire takes up threads of Dewey's thought that have been largely unexplored and elaborates pragmatism's distinctive contribution to understandings of moral experience, inquiry, and judgment. Building on two Deweyan notions—that moral character, belief, and reasoning are part of a social and historical context and that moral deliberation is an imaginative, dramatic rehearsal of (...)
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  • Morality without Ethics.Zygmunt Bauman - 1994 - Theory, Culture and Society 11 (4):1-34.
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  • A Category of the Mind.Marcel Mauss - 1985 - In Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Category of the person: anthropology, philosophy, history. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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  • Introduction to ethics.E. Durkheim - 1979 - In W. S. F. Pickering (ed.), Durkheim: essays on morals and education. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 79--96.
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  • Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters: Lessons for Bioethics from the Social Sciences and Managed Care.James Lindemann Nelson - 2000 - Hastings Center Report 30 (1):12-17.
    On the usual account of moral reasoning, social science is often seen as able to provide “just the facts,” while philosophy attends to moral values and conceptual clarity and builds formally valid arguments. Yet disciplines are informed by epistemic values—and bioethics might do well to see social scientific practices and their attendant normative understandings about what is humanly important as a significant part of ethics generally.
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  • Commodifying bodies.Nancy Scheper-Hughes & Loïc J. D. Wacquant (eds.) - 2002 - Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
    Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new 'ethic of parts' for which the divisible body is severed from (...)
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  • World in fragments: writings on politics, society, psychoanalysis, and the imagination.Cornelius Castoriadis - 1997 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by David Ames Curtis.
    This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary thought. The book is in four parts: Koinonia, Polis, Psyche, Logos. The opening section begins with a general introduction to the author's views on being, time, creation, and the imaginary institution of society and continues with reflections on the role of the individual psyche in racist thinking and acting. The second part is a critique of those who now belittle and distort (...)
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  • A category of the human mind.Marcel Mauss - 1985 - In Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins & Steven Lukes (eds.), The Category of the person: anthropology, philosophy, history. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--25.
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  • The Category of the person: anthropology, philosophy, history.Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins & Steven Lukes (eds.) - 1985 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The concept that peope have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and historians examine the notion of the person in different cultures, past and present. Taking as their starting point a lecture on the person as a category of the human mind, given by Marcel Mauss in 1938, the contributors (...)
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  • (1 other version)What can the social sciences contribute to the study of ethics? Theoretical, empirical and substantive considerations.Erica Haimes - 2002 - Bioethics 16 (2):89–113.
    This article seeks to establish that the social sciences have an important contribution to make to the study of ethics. The discussion is framed around three questions: (i) what theoretical work can the social sciences contribute to the understanding of ethics? (ii) what empirical work can the social sciences contribute to the understanding of ethics? And (iii) how does this theoretical and empirical work combine, to enhance the understanding of how ethics, as a field of analysis and debate, is socially (...)
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  • (1 other version)What can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations.Erica Haimes - 2002 - Bioethics 16 (2):89-113.
    This article seeks to establish that the social sciences have an important contribution to make to the study of ethics. The discussion is framed around three questions: (i) what theoretical work can the social sciences contribute to the understanding of ethics? (ii) what empirical work can the social sciences contribute to the understanding of ethics? And (iii) how does this theoretical and empirical work combine, to enhance the understanding of how ethics, as a field of analysis and debate, is socially (...)
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  • The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences.Michel Foucault - 1994 - London: Routledge.
    When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an (...)
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  • Existentialism and Humanism.Jean-Paul Sartre - 1949 - Philosophy 24 (89):182-183.
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  • The dualism of human nature and its social conditions.Emile Durkheim & Greg Yudin - 2013 - Russian Sociological Review 12 (2):133-144.
    This paper briefly summarizes Durkheim’s theory of the dual nature of man suggested earlier in his Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It is characteristic of human beings that two opposite principles confront each other within them: soul and body, concept and sensation, moral activity and sensory appetites. Although this inherent inconsistency of man has been long recognized by philosophical thought, no doctrine explanation to it has been provided to date. While empiricist monism has proved to be unable to explain how (...)
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  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics.Hubert L. Dreyfus & Paul Rabinow - 1982 - Chicago: Routledge. Edited by Paul Rabinow & Michel Foucault.
    This book is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault's work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method - "interpretative analytics" - capable of explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and the apparent (...)
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  • Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams.David Graeber - 2001 - Palgrave-Macmillan.
    This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory that have become critical at a time of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights (...)
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  • (1 other version)After Virtue.A. MacIntyre - 1981 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1):169-171.
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  • Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in.Margaret Urban Walker - 1998 - In Stephen Everson (ed.), Ethics: Companions to Ancient Thought, Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press.
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  • Bodies for sale-whole or in parts.Nancy Scheper-Hughes - 2002 - In Nancy Scheper-Hughes & Loïc J. D. Wacquant (eds.), Commodifying bodies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. pp. 1--8.
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  • Audit cultures: anthropological studies in accountability, ethics, and the academy.Marilyn Strathern (ed.) - 2000 - New York: Routledge.
    If cultures are always in the making, this book catches one kind of culture on the make. Academics will be familiar with audit in the form of research and teaching assessments - they may not be aware how pervasive practices of 'accountability' are or of the diversity of political regimes under which they flourish. Twelve social anthropologists from across Europe and the Commonwealth chart an influential and controversial cultural phenomenon.
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  • Existentialism and Humanism.Jean-Paul Sartre - 1948 - Brooklyn: Haskell House. Edited by Philip Mairet.
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  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. [REVIEW]Ian Hacking - 1985 - Journal of Philosophy 82 (5):273-277.
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  • Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics.Margaret Urban Walker - 1997 - New York, US: Routledge.
    First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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  • Are values real? The enigma of naturalism in the anthropological imputation of values.Fredrik Barth - 1993 - In R. Michod, L. Nadel & M. Hechter (eds.), The Origin of Values. Aldine de Gruyer. pp. 31--46.
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  • Critical bioethics: Beyond the social science critique of applied ethics.Adam M. Hedgecoe - 2004 - Bioethics 18 (2):120–143.
    ABSTRACT This article attempts to show a way in which social science research can contribute in a meaningful and equitable way to philosophical bioethics. It builds on the social science critique of bioethics present in the work of authors such as Renée Fox, Barry Hoffmaster and Charles Bosk, proposing the characteristics of a critical bioethics that would take social science seriously. The social science critique claims that traditional philosophical bioethics gives a dominant role to idealised, rational thought, and tends to (...)
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  • Use of Pleasure.Michel Foucault & Robert Hurley - 1984
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  • Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics.Clifford Geertz - 2000 - Princeton University Press.
    In this collection of essays, Clifford Geertz explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost spokesperson of his generation of scholars, those who came of age after World War II. ...
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  • The Nature of Culture. By C. E. Ayres.A. L. Kroeber - 1952 - Ethics 63 (3):217-218.
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  • (1 other version)Pragmatic bioethics.Glenn McGee (ed.) - 2003 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    Modern scientific and medical advances bring new complexity and urgency to ethical issues in health care and biomedical research. This book applies the American philosophical theory of pragmatism to such bioethics. Critics of pragmatism argue that it lacks a universal moral foundation. Yet it is this very lack of a metaphysical dividing line between facts and values that makes pragmatism such a rigorous and appropriate method for solving problems in bioethics. For pragmatism, ethics is a way of satisfying the complex (...)
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  • Public Bioethics and Publics: Consensus, Boundaries, and Participation in Biomedical Science Policy.Susan E. Kelly - 2003 - Science, Technology and Human Values 28 (3):339-364.
    Public bioethics bodies are used internationally as institutions with the declared aims of facilitating societal debate and providing policy advice in certain areas of scientific inquiry raising questions of values and legitimate science. In the United States, bioethical experts in these institutions use the language of consensus building to justify and define the outcome of the enterprise. However, the implications of public bioethics at science-policy boundaries are underexamined. Political interest in such bodies continues while their influence on societal consensus, public (...)
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  • Anthropology and Ethics.Mayand Abraham Edel - 1959 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (4):540-541.
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  • Anthropology and ethics.May M. Edel - 1959 - Cleveland,: Press of Case Western Reserve University. Edited by Abraham Edel.
    This book presents the results of an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration to clarify theories of morality and anthropology and philosophy, showing how each may be enriched by borrowing from the other. Pooling the resources and methods of their respective fields-anthropology and philosophy-May and Abraham Edel examine the wide range of moral differences in the world "to establish 'coordinates' for the more systematic mapping of particular moralities, to explore more explicitly the relations of morality to cultural patterns and social processes, and (...)
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  • 3. Humanism as Nihilism: The Bracketing of Truth and Seriousness in American Cultural Anthropology.Paul Rabinow - 1983 - In Norma Haan, Robert N. Bellah, Paul Rabinow & William M. Sullivan (eds.), Social Science as Moral Inquiry. Columbia University Press. pp. 52-75.
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  • Empty Ethics: The Problem with Informed Consent.Oonagh Corrigan - 2003 - Sociology of Health & Illness 25 (3):768-792.
    Informed consent is increasingly heralded as an ethical panacea, a tool to counter autocratic and paternalistic medical practices. Debate about the implementation of informed consent is constricted and polarised, centring on the right of individuals to be fully informed and to freely choose versus an autocratic, paternalistic practice that negates individual choice. A bioethical framework, based on a principle-led form of reductive/deductive reasoning, dominates the current model of informed consent. Such a model tends to abstract the process of consent from (...)
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  • Pragmatic method and bioethics.Glenn McGee - forthcoming - Pragmatic Bioethics.
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  • Troubled Voices: Stories of Ethics and Illness.Richard M. Zaner - 1998 - Human Studies 21 (1):49-55.
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  • The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine.Cathy Waldby - 2000 - Psychology Press.
    The Visible Human Project examines how the VHP provides visual access to every organ of the body, viewable from every angle and capable of being manipulated to simulate living processes like respiration.
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  • Clinical narratives and ethical dilemmas in geriatrics.Sharon R. Kaufman - 2001 - In C. Barry Hoffmaster (ed.), Bioethics in social context. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 12--38.
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  • The Contributions of Sociology to Medical Ethics.Robert Zussman - 2000 - Hastings Center Report 30 (1):7.
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  • Troubled voices: stories of ethics and illness.Richard M. Zaner - 1993 - Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press.
    This honest, forthright, and beautifully-written book introduces readers to the human variations on medical topics spoken of in abstract in the daily news--euthanasia, assisted suicide, abortion, "extreme procedures", genetic testing, experimental surgeries--and to the people who must agonize over those decisions regarding themselves and their loved ones.
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  • Value-bifurcation in bioscience: The rhetoric of research justification.Laurie Anne Whitt - 1999 - Perspectives on Science 7 (4):413-446.
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  • The Ethnography of Moralities.Signe Howell - 2005 - Routledge.
    Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and ethical origins of beliefs relating to human rights become increasingly relevant. Some of the questions that the contributors address are: * How is the ethical knowledge grounded? * Which social domains most profoundly articulate moral (...)
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