Ethnography and reflexivity: emotions and feelings in fieldwork: in this paper, Glynis Pellatt focuses on the importance of reflexivity, with reference to ethnographic research into patient participation in rehabilitation. (reflexivity in research).

From: Nurse Researcher | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: Pellatt, Glynis | Copyright information

key words

* ethnography

* reflexivity

* fieldwork

* patient participation

* spinal injuries rehabilitation

Introduction

Reflexivity involves recognition of the researcher's integral part of the social world being studied (Ersser 1996). In this paper, based on ongoing research into patient and professional discourses of patient participation in rehabilitation, reflexivity is discussed as an important pa...