What Would You Do?

Acknowledgements

Introduction • What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography

ONE • THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF ETHICS

1. Professional Ethicist Available: Logical, Secular, Friendly

2. The Licensing and Certification of Ethics Consultants: What Part of "No!" Was So Hard to Understand?

 

3. Institutional Ethics Committees: Sociological Oxymoron, Empirical Black Box

4. Margin of Error: The Sociology of Ethics Consultation

5. Bureaucracies of Mass Deception: Institutional Review Boards and Ethics of Ethnographic Research with Raymond G. De Vries

TWO • THE ETHICS OF ETHNOGRAPHY: GENETIC COUNSELORS REVISITED

6. Invitation to Ethnography

7. A Twice-Told Tale of Witnessing

8. Irony, Ethnography, and Informed Consent

THREE • THE ETHICS OF ETHNOGRAPHY: SURGEONS REVISITED

9. The Field-Worker and the Surgeon

10. An Ethnographer's Apology, A Bioethicist's Lament: The Surgeon and the Sociologist Revisited

11. A Moment of Silence: On Not Giving Up Dr. Arthur's Ghost

CONCLUSION • PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND MORAL COWARDICE

Counterfeit Courage and the Noncombatant

Index