Cancer the Bogeyman and Me
Reflexivity and Emotion in `End of Life' Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3010784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona M Harris, Fiona Harris (0000-0003-3258-5624, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology in Action (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-201X • E-ISSN: 1752-2285 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/aia.2008.150103 |
| OpenAlex | W1998446631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper explores the embodied nature of training in social anthropology and reveals how, while working in multidisciplinary teams and drawing on research methods and approaches more commonly associated with other disciplines, one might still be ‘outed’ in one’s interpretation and analysis. I draw on the experience of working on a project exploring methodological issues and challenges to conducting research with terminally ill cancer patients to reveal the importance of situating ourselves as researchers firmly within the prejudices of our own societies. While personal experience of losing a parent to cancer should have alerted me to other ways of seeing cancer, I was nevertheless obliged to confront sociocultural constructions of cancer and recognise them as my own. Through understanding the power of ‘imagined experience’, I gained further insight into how intersubjectivity and reflexivity are crucial to the research process
Reflexivity · Sociology · Anthropology · Empathy and Medical Education · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |