Risk, Reflexivity and an Elusory Body

Transformations in Studying Illness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365166
AutoresElizabeth E Wheatley (Smith College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen34
Número1
Páginas68-100
Fecha de publicación2005-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241604271341
OpenAlexW2025210909
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas37

This article calls attention to how theory shapes ethnographic relations, practices, and "truths" about bodies and identities. While carrying out ethnographic research among men and women with heart disease, I experienced a "scare" for ovarian cancer, which interrupted the fieldwork, elicited revisions in research relations, and compelled me to see how my theoretic and purposive agendas had functioned as discourses that promoted and reinforced differences between research participants and me. My elusory body enabled me to recognize our fundamental similarities and alerted me to misguided turns I had taken in my research trajectory

Ethnography · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology