"Responsibility for those in need" - an ethnography of Jewish mental and social healthcare provision in New York City, USA

我的建议是在犹太家庭和儿童服务委员会进行为期12-15个月的人种学研究，这是一个非营利性组织，以犹太价值观为指导，但向所有纽约人提供服务。在此期间，我将在我的主要研究计划中概述的关键地点进行参与者观察，以及与对话者进行非结构化访谈。特别是，我计划在犹太成瘾康复呼叫中心、戒毒诊所和东正教疗养院进行实地工作，这些都是在委员会以及委员会的执行总部的主持下运营的。我的研究问题围绕着护理以及如何实施和接受护理，以及组织的合格身份如何影响这一点。我特别感兴趣的是，本组织援引犹太人对他人负责的概念作为其存在的灵感来源，这一概念如何体现在本组织的运作及其成员的生活中。这项研究将位于犹太教、护理和医学人类学的交叉点上，并有可能对每一个学科做出重大贡献，特别是在这个责任问题上，在我看来，医学人类学和犹太教人类学都没有对这个问题进行充分的探索。

My proposal is to perform ethnographic research for 12-15 months with the Jewish Board of Family and Children'sServices, a not-for-profit organisation guided by Jewish values but which offers services to all New Yorkers. During thistime, I will engage in participant observation at key sites outlined in my main research proposal, as well as unstructuredinterviews with interlocutors. In particular, I plan to conduct fieldwork in a call centre for Jewish addiction recovery, apsychiatric clinic, and an Orthodox care home all run under the auspices of the Board, as well as the Board's executiveheadquarters. My research questions revolve around care and how care is carried out and received, and how thereligious identity of the organisation impacts this. I am particularly interested in how the notion of Jewish responsibility forothers which the organisation cites as the inspiration for its existence is manifested in the operations of the organisationand in the lives of its members. This research will sit at the intersection of the anthropologies of Judaism, care andmedicine and has the potential to make a significant contribution to each particularly in this question of responsibility,which is to my eyes under-explored in both medical anthropology and the anthropology of Judaism.