Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. She previously taught at the Universities of PNG (1984-6), Minnesota (1989-2007), and the London School of Economics (1986-8). The Production of Inequality (1985) and Melanesian Odysseys (2008) are her most important publications on her PNG fieldwork. Her current interests focus on cosmopolitanism, philosophical anthropology and issues of knowledge and the person. Anne Sigfrid Gronseth is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology in the Department of Health and Social Science at the University College of Lillehammer, Norway, where she directs the Research Unit of Health, Culture and Identity. Her research on Tamil refugees with concern for health and wellbeing engages issues of methodology, modes of knowledge and humanism.

"Drawing from contexts of migration and biomedicine, this compelling collection offers timely contributions to current debates on the anthropology of knowledge, and tackles the challenging question of knowledge production during fieldwork, primarily in contexts of cultural difference and diversity." * Astrid Bochow, University of Gottingen

• List of IllustrationIntroduction: The Ethics of Knowledge-CreationAnne Sigfrid Gronseth and Lisette JosephidesPART I: NEGOTIATING AND TRANSACTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELDChapter 1. Empathic Relations with Tamil Refugees: Challenging Morality and Calling for Ethics of Knowledge-CreationAnne Sigfrid GronsethChapter 2. The Danger of Knowledge: Exercising Sameness, Bound to DifferentiationGiovanna BacchidduChapter 3. On the Shifting Ethics and Contexts of Knowledge ProductionTamara KohnPART II: THE ETHICS OF INDIRECT MEDIATED ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 4. Troubled Conjunctures: Ethnography, Psychotherapy and Transnational Social FieldsLaura HuttunenChapter 5. The Problems with Gossip: Reflections on the Ethics of Conducting Multi-sited Ethnographic ResearchTamsin BradleyPART III: BIOETHICS, BIO-POLITICS, AND HUMANITY BEYOND THE LOCALChapter 6. A Meditation on Knowledge Production by Personalized Genetic TestingKaja FinklerChapter 7. Biotechnology, Law and Some Problems of KnowingMarit MelhuusChapter 8. Towards an Epistemology of Ethical KnowledgeLisette JosephidesAfterwordMarilyn StrathernIndex