Abstract
Medical anthropology, activists and intellectuals: an interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos
Nancy’s commitment to ethnography as engaged witnessing was inherent to her practice, so we did not speak about medical anthropologists that are public intellectuals as opposed to the ones that are not
Of the applied medical anthropologist In Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics was to ‘educate the medically illiterate’ I described myself as a pathologist of if Medical anthropology, activists and intellectuals: an interview with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Summary
A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos. For Nancy, understanding human difference may be the cornerstone of all anthropological work; despite the “suspension of disbelief” and of “bracketing” that the traditional stance of cultural relativism demands at the beginning of all new fieldwork ventures, this task does not exclude the application of ethical judgment and critical analysis, which should follow it.
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