Ethics
All the procedures for identifying human remains come with a code of ethics both in Canada and the United States. A guide to the code of ethics in anthropological studies, including the fields of biological and forensic anthropology, is provided by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) where ethics in all areas of anthropology are included. When the forensic anthropologist is accused of questionable behavior regarding how a set of human remains are handled, the consequences may be extreme. The forensic anthropologist may be committing a legal offense in which he or she may face criminal charges.
Generally, the application of forensic anthropology in Canada and the United States are identical. However, unlike other disciplines where professionals may be guided on how to instruct students in their field, forensic anthropologists rarely provide formal training. Although professionals in the field of forensic anthropology usually do not have any formal training in teaching the field, there are many dedicated professionals who pass on their knowledge in post-secondary institutions.
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Famous quotes containing the word ethics:
“In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Indeed the involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)