Collecting medical specimens in South America: A dilemma in medical ethics

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 142-148

  Kempf, Judith ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Amerindians; Ascariasis; Aw ; Bioethics; Ethnomedicine

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECUADOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FREEDOM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; PATERNALISM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ATTITUDE; COERCION; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECUADOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FREEDOM; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; PATERNALISM; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 0030177047     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3317985     Document Type: Article

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