Anthropology: Ethics

Includes links to the AAA Code of Ethics, the AAA Committee on Ethics, working with institutional review boards, and the Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology.

Edited by Joan Cassell and Sue-Ellen Jacobs, this special publication of the American Anthropological Association includes chapters on Some Issues and Sources on Ethics in Anthropology, Committee on Ethics: Past, Present, and Future, Cases and Solutions, Cases and Comments, Some Experiences in Teaching Ethics in Fieldwork Classes, and How to Hold a Workshop on Ethical Problems in Fieldwork.

Written by Stuart Plattner, the cultural anthropology program director of the National Science Foundation, this commentary presents his personal opinion based on ten years of activity as the human subjects specialist at the NSF, and with the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee, a government-wide interagency coordinating committee housed in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.