Anthropologie et justice

Anthropologie Médicale

Medical anthropologists are involved in the control of several infectious and parasitic diseases throughout the world, but only recently have anthropologists (or any social scientists for that matter) conducted field studies on high mortality emerging diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF). HEWLETT and AMOLA (5) provided the first systematic medical anthropological field study of Ebola ...

The medizinische Anthropologie of the Heidelberg School. Implications for bioethics

This paper presents some of the thought framework underlying the movement characterized as anthropologische Medizin and medizinische Anthropologie, developed by the Heidelberg School. Drawing particularly upon the work of Viktor von Weizsäcker and Paul Christian, an attempt is made to relate the basic concepts of solidarity and reciprocity to current American bioethical thinking. Attention is p...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Distributive Justice in Pharmaceutical Torts: Justice Where Justice Is Due?

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

Simulation and role-playing games for social justice research Simulation et jeux de rôles pour la recherche sur la justice sociale

Nous discutons ici différentes approches expérimentales des questions de justice sociale pour l’eau. Nous nous fondons sur de nombreuses enquêtes menées auprès de populations rurales australiennes, et ayant questionné les principes considérés comme juste pour l’allocation de l’eau. Cela a conduit à un nombre limité de principes de justice universels et situationnels, acceptés et reconnus par le...