Creating a global community of practicing anthropologists
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Anthropologists working in the academy frequently take for granted the international networks which enrich their professional lives. Practicing anthropologists do not enjoy the same advantages as their academic counterparts and often find that global networks focused on practitioner issues are non-existent. A group of anthropological practitioners from several countries within the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences has established a new commission to focus on the work of applied and practicing anthropologists and their progress is evaluated.
Publication Name: Human Organization
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0018-7259
Year: 1998
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Ethical standards for medical anthropologists consulting in ethnomedicine
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Medical anthropologists should adopt ethical standards based on a widespread consensus among practitioners. Standards should cover ethnomedical treatments and methods, consulting and teaching practices and sociopolitical evaluations. Practitioners should also provide reliable information concerning ethnomedicine, delineate the limits of their expertise, exercise caution in explaining treatment in terms of cultural beliefs and evaluate treatment efficacy. Medical anthropologists should also discuss adverse reactions and be able to justify treatment costs.
Publication Name: Human Organization
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0018-7259
Year: 1996
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Ethical issues for social anthropologists: a North American perspective on long-term research in Mexico
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The roles and responsibilities of professional anthropologists regarding various important issues were identified. They include ethical, judicial and human right issues which resulted from the demand of the Mexican informants to have fair treatment and proper agrarian law implementation and sound immigration policies regarding Mexican migrants in the US. Thus, the commentary emphasized on the responsibilities of North American anthropologists to the Mexican people, to the public, to their colleagues, to the students and trainees, and to the government.
Publication Name: Human Organization
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0018-7259
Year: 1997
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