Nummer / Issue 23 ( 1 )

SPECIAL ISSUE:

“Ethics, Health Care & Anthropology”
Theme editors: Dick Willems and Dorothea Touwen

Editor’s note
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Theme articles / Thema-artikelen

DICK WILLEMS & DOROTHEA TOUWEN
Introduction: Ethics, health care and anthropology
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Conflicting values

LIANNE HOLTEN & ANNEMIEK RICHTERS
A maternity clinic in Mali.
Bioethics and moral experiences in a zone of awkward engagement
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ELLEN KRISTVIK
For whom and for what?
Exploring the question of ‘informed consent’ in treatment decision making processes
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NORA ENGEL
Local adaptation versus standardization?
Treatment delivery for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India
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ANNEMIEK STOOPENDAAL
Different kinds of gaps:
Combined values and partial connections in fall prevention in long-term health care
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Care and care organization

LIEKE OLDENHOF & KIM PUTTERS
Daily practices of operational healthcare managers:
Dealing with tensions between different values
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CAROLIEN PRONK
Ethical care for teenage mothers and the importance of spirituality
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SHARON R. KAUFMAN & LAKSHMI FJORD
Making longevity in an aging society: Linking technology, policy and ethics
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Research

SJAAK VAN DER GEEST
Ethnocentric ethics in anthropological research
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SHAHADUZ ZAMAN & PAPREEN NAHAR
Searching for a lost cow.
Ethical dilemmas of doing medical anthropological research in Bangladesh
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PRISCA ZWANIKKEN & PAULINE OOSTERHOFF
Why a research ethics committee for social science?
Reflections on three years of experience at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
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Non-theme article

ATHENA MCLEAN (with Annette Leibing)
Ethnography and self-exploration
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NEWS / BERICHTEN
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Recent dissertations on health, culture and society
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BOEKBESPREKINGEN - BOOK REVIEWS
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English FELICITAS BECKER & WENZEL GEISSLER (eds), Aids and religious practice in Africa (Constantine Steven Loum Labongo)

ELLY ENGELKENS, Tropenjaren tellen dubbel. Leven en werken in Nigeria (Winny Koster)

ANDREA KUCKERT & P. ESTERHUIZEN (red), Diversiteit in de verpleegkunde (Anna Lisa Albers)

English PHILIP ROTH, Nemesis (Sjaak van der Geest)

STEVEN VAN DE VIJVER, Is dat normaal, dokter? (Rob van Dijk).