The (extra)ordinary ethics of being HIV-positive in rural Papua New Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2252942
AutoresHolly Wardlow (0000-0002-8762-665X, Department of Anthropology University of Toronto 19 Russell Street Toronto ON M5S 2S2 Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen23
Número1
Páginas103-119
Fecha de publicación2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9655.12546
OpenAlexW2581328370
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas33

HIV/AIDS continues to be intimately entwined with the moral domain, and thus a positive diagnosis can cast doubt on a person's moral status. I draw on recent literature in the anthropology of ethics and morality, as well as feminist moral philosophy, to analyse the post-diagnosis practices of HIV-positive women in Papua New Guinea as they attempt to recuperate their moral personhood and make their ethical commitments visible to others. I argue that they carve out a repertoire of (extra)ordinary ethics from the 'ordinary' domain and that their practices tend towards a deontological ethics, rather than a virtue ethics, orientation

Christian ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Morality · New guinea · Personhood · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Immunology · Medicine · Philosophy · Religious studies · Sex work and related issues