Ethical Dilemmas
Case 1: To Medicate or Not?
Case 2: Who Owns the Field Notes?
Case 3: Witness to Murder
Case 4: Protecting Research Subjects
Case 5: Anonymity Declined
Case 6: Forbidden Knowledge
Case 7: Robbers, Rogues or Revolutionaries: Handling Armed Intimidation
Case 8: Case of the Missing Artifact -
NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) and ARPA (Archaeological Resources Protection Act)
Case 9: "Hot" Gifts
Case 10: Minuteman Project
Case 11: Tearoom Trade
Each group will present their case, summarizing it in your own words, and offering your resolution to the ethical dilemma. Attempt to link your case and its resolution with larger issues of ethical consideration and any similar cases. Present your materials in such a fashion as to spawn discussion. Each group will have approximately 10-12 minutes to present and discuss the case. Though we may not get this far, the first six groups should be prepared to present on the first day.
Cases are from actual situations faced by sociologist and anthropologist in the field and some are listed on the AAA Ethics Web Site.