Unending Lessons: A Course on Anthropological Ethics
In early 2009, I first heard about the Kenan Institute’s Instructorship in Ethics fellowship, which provides an opportunity for a Duke graduate student to design and teach an undergraduate course in ethics. During that same time, I learned that the American Anthropological Association (AAA) had begun a process of reviewing its Code of Ethics … Read more »
Director’s Note
Many of us wish we had a simple way to resolve ethical dilemmas. Beset by competing priorities and torn by conflicting obligations, who wouldn’t want a sure-fire way to answers life’s toughest questions? Read more »
The Arrogant Eye in Nepal
Boredom was a bizarre and troubling thing to feel while taking my first walk through a refugee camp. Refugee camps: they are supposed to operate at the fringe of “normal” living and so evoke powerful emotions on the part of refugees and those outsiders who come in touch with them. “Wow, you’re a refugee?”—very little else in the realm of human experience seems to suggest as much emotional turmoil and to command as much deep, human respect as refugeehood. Read more »
Doing Ethics: Reflections on 15 Years
As part of the Institute’s 15th anniversary this year, Ethics in Action editor Aimee Rodriguez asked Director Noah Pickus to reflect on the Institute’s past, present, and future. Read more »
Profile in Ethics: Rui Jiang
It was a combination of doing community-based research for a summer service project for the Service Opportunities in Leadership Program, an interest in global and cross-cultural health in Duke’s Global Health Institute, and participation in Suzanne Shanahan’s class on ethical and health-related issues surrounding refugee resettlement that Benjamin Duke Scholar Rui Jiang found herself talking about food with Bhutanese refugees who had recently resettled in Durham. Read more »
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