title: Anthropology, ethical dissonance, and the construction of the object.
abstract: In this article, I discuss certain questions relating to the ethical difficulties faced by anthropologists when dealing with two different social groups and when one group holds a position of dominance over the other. In the first example, I draw on my work on doctor-patient relationships in France; in the second, on a study on reproduction in immigrant African families from Mali and Senegal, living in polygynous households in France. I use these examples to explore questions of positionality, beneficence, and potential harm. I show the choices I made in order to construct an epistemologically ethical object.
authors: a National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Centre of Research Medicine, Sciences, Health, Mental Health, Society , Villejuif , France.
authors: Sylvie
authors: S
authors: Fainzang
mesh_terms: D060432:Anthropology, Medical / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012675:Senegal / Q000208:ethnology; D012930:Social Dominance
keywords: doctor-patient relationship; ethical dissonance; polygyny; power relationship; stigmatization