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

我的建议是与犹太家庭和儿童服务委员会一起进行为期12-15个月的人种学研究，这是一个以犹太人价值观为指导的非营利组织，但为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性观察，以及与对话者进行非结构化访谈。特别是，我计划在一个犹太成瘾康复呼叫中心、一个精神病诊所和一个东正教护理院进行实地考察，这些都是在委员会的主持下运作的，也是委员会的执行总部。我的研究问题围绕着护理以及如何进行和接受护理，以及组织的宗教身份如何影响这一点。我特别感兴趣的是，犹太人对他人负责的概念是如何体现在组织的运作和成员的生活中，该组织将其作为其存在的灵感。这项研究将位于犹太教人类学、护理学和医学的交叉点，并有可能对这三个学科做出重大贡献，特别是在责任问题上，在我看来，这在医学人类学和犹太教人类学中都没有得到充分的探讨。

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.