Ethnographies and Health

Description

This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process. There is now a plethora of disciplinary engagements with ethnography around the topic of health, including anthropology, sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and in health care professions such as nursing and occupational therapy. This dynamic and evolving landscape means ethnography and health are entangled in new and different ways, providing a timely opportunity to explore what these entanglements do and affect in the social production of knowledge. Rather than discussing the strengths (and limitations) of ethnography for engaging with health, the book asks: what does ethnography enable, make visible and possible for knowing and doing health in contemporary research settings and beyond? Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Entangling Ethnography and Health (Joanna Reynolds, Sarah Milton, Emma Garnett)....Pages 1-17 Working Through Ethical and Emotional Concerns and Uncertainties in Ethnographic Research with People with Learning Disabilities (Carys Banks)....Pages 19-34 Virtual Ethnography of HIV: Positive Health Status in Gay Virtual Intimacies in Serbia (Zoran Milosavljevic)....Pages 35-50 Ethnography and Ethics in Your Own Workplace: Reconceptualising Dialysis Care from an Insider Nurse Researcher (Alison F. Wood)....Pages 51-66 Using an Ethnographic Approach to Study End-of-Life Care: Reflections from Research Encounters in England (Erica Borgstrom)....Pages 67-83 An Occupational Therapist Ethnographer on an Acute Medical Unit: Using Reflexivity to Understand Situational Identities and the Weight of Expectation (Annabel Rule)....Pages 85-101 Shaping the Field: A Reflexive Account of Practitioner Interference During Ethnographic Fieldwork in Radiotherapy (Lisa Anne Wood)....Pages 103-121 Symbolic, Collective and Intimate Spaces: An Ethnographic Approach to the Places of Integrated Care (Gemma Hughes)....Pages 123-139 Temporality and the Intersections Between Ageing, Gender and Being Well: Reflections from an Ethnographic Study in Salsa Classes (Sarah Milton)....Pages 141-157 Caring with Others: Constructing a Good Life with Incurable Illness (Dikaios Sakellariou, Narelle Warren)....Pages 159-176 ‘What Sort of Jumper Is that, Your Wife Has Terrible Taste Mate’. Exploring the Importance of Positionality Within Ethnographic Research Conducted Alongside a Public Health Programme in Three Scottish Prisons (Matthew Maycock)....Pages 177-193 Ethnographic Encounters with the ‘Community’: Implications for Considering Scale in Public Health Evaluation (Joanna Reynolds)....Pages 195-212 ‘To Uninstall Oneself’: Ethnographizing Immunostimulants for Autoimmunity in Brazil (Márcio Vilar)....Pages 213-232 Knowledge Infrastructures of Air Pollution: Tracing the In-Between Spaces of Interdisciplinary Science in Action (Emma Garnett)....Pages 233-252 Towards a Pragmatics of Health (Tiago Moreira)....Pages 253-268 Back Matter ....Pages 269-275