GETTING PERSONAL: ETHICS AND IDENTITY IN GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH

• Published in: Developing world bioethics Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 82 - 92
• Main Authors: SIMON, CHRISTIAN, MOSAVEL, MAGHBOEBA
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Anthropologists; Clinical Trials as Topic - ethics; Community-Based Participatory Research - ethics; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; ethical mindfulness; Ethics; Ethics, Research; global health research; Humans; Identity; Mass Media; Medical anthropology; Medical care; Medical research; Politics; research ethics; Research Personnel - ethics; Research Personnel - psychology; Research Personnel - standards; Research Support as Topic - ethics; Research workers; researcher identity; Researcher-Subject Relations - ethics; Researcher-Subject Relations - psychology; Residence Characteristics; Role; Social Identification; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; South Africa; Truth Disclosure - ethics; U.S.A; United States

ABSTRACT ‘Researcher identity’ affects global health research in profound and complex ways. Anthropologists in particular have led the way in portraying the multiple, and sometimes tension‐generating, identities that researchers ascribe to themselves, or have ascribed to them, in their places of res...