Slave ethics and imagining critically applied anthropology in public health research.
For several years I considered myself a resident enemy alien of public health research. This polemical article explores this enemy alien subjectivity by looking at an ethnographic case showing how race is figured in public health research, and it asks what this subjectivity might suggest for a medical anthropology struggling to be both more public and interdisciplinary, and more fundamentally ethnological. As I imbue my enemy alien subjectivity with uniquely anthropological images and references, I ask medical anthropologists to reflect upon the specialized nature of a contemporary anthropological imagination and, while doing this, to look to the Nietzschean notion of slave ethics in order to engage with questions of how we might use this self-awareness to create various modes of"postcritical"practice in public health.
Linder
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA. lindergf@jmu.edu
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000592:standards*; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000592:standards*; D044469:Racial Groups; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*; D012940:Social Problems / Q000941:ethics; D014481:United States