What would you do? : juggling bioethics and ethnography / Charles L. Bosk.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

xxx, 255 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Professional ethicist available : logical, secular, friendly -- The licensing and certification of ethics consultants : what part of "no!" was so hard to understand? -- Institutional ethics committees : sociological oxymoron, empirical black box / with Joel Frader -- Margin of error : the sociology of ethics consultation -- Bureaucracies of mass deception : institutional review boards and the ethics of ethnographic research / with Raymond G. DeVries -- Invitation to ethnography -- A twice-told tale of witnessing -- Irony, ethnography, and informed consent -- The field-worker and the surgeon -- An ethnographer's apology, a bioethicist's lament : the surgeon and the sociologist revisited -- A monument of silence : on not giving up Dr. Arthur's ghost.