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- Title
Mittendrin statt nur dabei: Die ethnografische Erforschung von Gesundheit und Krankheit.
- Authors
Houben, Malin; Augst, Ann Kristin
- Abstract
This article discusses the potentials and challenges of ethnography concerning the research subject of health and illness and locates this approach in the field of multidisciplinary health research. Fieldwork and participatory observation are reliable methods for the inquiry of various phenomena concerning health issues. Despite its rich tradition, ethnography has not been fully established and institutionalized in current German health research. We present four significant themes which focus on conjunctions of the body and the social, based on classic and recent ethnographic literature. The challenges of ethnographic health research are concerned with practical issues and research ethics, as well as barriers towards reception and acceptance within scientific disciplines and practitioners.
- Subjects
ETHNOLOGY research; PUBLIC health research; INTERDISCIPLINARY research; SOCIAL medicine; ETHNOLOGY; FIELD research; RESEARCH ethics
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung (ZQF), 2022, Vol 23, Issue 2, p148
- ISSN
2196-2138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/zqf.v23i2.02