Comments on: A culture shock in brain ethics http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/20/a-culture-shock-in-brain-ethics/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Neuroethics in Cultural Neuroscience « Cultural Neuroscience http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/20/a-culture-shock-in-brain-ethics/#comment-17176 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:43:33 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16838#comment-17176 [...] DNA samples of the Havasupai Indians by geneticists at Arizona State University in 1990. Over at Mindhacks, I’ve also discovered an interview on a related topic with a Maori [...]

]]> By: Russell W http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/20/a-culture-shock-in-brain-ethics/#comment-16845 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:58:11 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16838#comment-16845 I’m currently working on a paper involving repeated interaction games (one classic example of which is the ultimatum game–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game) This game is one of reputation and its been anecdotally reported to me a few times that there are many communities who refuse to participate in such a game–their reputations are far too important to be considered a game.

]]> By: Why It’s Not Smart To Assume Universal Values | Bailey WorkPlay :: Marketing & Customer Experience http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/20/a-culture-shock-in-brain-ethics/#comment-16753 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:20:01 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16838#comment-16753 [...] those values around ethical research you have are universal? Think again. The folks at Mind Hacks point to an interesting article from the Dana Foundation about how different cultures share [...]

]]> By: gordoningram http://mindhacks.com/2011/01/20/a-culture-shock-in-brain-ethics/#comment-16746 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:24:25 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=16838#comment-16746 That’s an interesting point about anonymity. The phenomenon of feeling “stripped of one’s identity” may even occur in our own culture. There was a study recently in the university where I got my PhD (NOT apocryphal – I know the names of the researchers involved) – which interviewed cancer sufferers. It was a really in-depth, emotive kind of study and the participants ended up really wanting their names associated with the study – they felt like it was a way of telling their stories. The researchers were fine with that, but when they approached the ethics committee about it (I guess they were doing things by the book, which may well have been a mistake) they were categorically forbidden from naming the participants. Crazy!

… I can see how someone from a Foucaultian perspective would see the fetishisation of anonymity as a classic case of power/knowledge: if you don’t name someone, it absolves you from letting them have any say in how you present what they are saying. It’s a really problematic area, actually, and I am struggling with it at the moment as I review my own fieldnotes before sending them to the teachers in whose classrooms I studied.
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