Presented By: Institute for the Humanities
FellowSpeak: "Being and Acting the Other: Expanding Ethics to Account for Complex Personhood"
Scott Stonington, Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow, assistant professor, anthropology and clinical lecturer, internal medicine

How can one make sense of individual ethical action when one is partly the other? Based on fieldwork in end-of-life care in Northern Thailand, where many individuals consider themselves to be hybrids of many beings, I will explore the implications of complex personhood for living an ethical life.