Life Stories, Intellectual Disability, Cultural Heritage and Ethics

Dilemmas in Researching and (re)presenting Accounts from the Scottish Highlands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12901835
AutoresKarrie Marshall (autor de correspondencia), Elizabeth Tilley (0000-0002-2095-9724)
Año2013
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas400-409
Fecha de publicación2013-10-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17496535.2013.842304
OpenAlexW2039923343
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

This article reflects on the ethical dilemmas involved in undertaking research on the history of institutional and community intellectual disability services between 1966 and 2009 in a tight-knit community in Scotland, through the In Our Own Voices: Leaving New Craigs hospitals’ story project. The accounts collected include painful memories of oppressive practice as well as fond recollections of community spirit, kindness and ‘good’ staff. However, the research stirred up sensitive issues amongst the community that left the researcher facing a number of challenges. In this article the authors will reflect on the ethics of investigating, confronting and disseminating difficult histories

Environmental ethics · Inclusion (mineral · Intellectual disability · Kindness · Political science · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis