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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Shaping the field
T2 - a reflexive account of practitioner interference during ethnographic fieldwork in radiotherapy
AU - Wood, Lisa Anne
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two UK hospitals during periods of technological change, I explore the multiplicity of roles performed when a practitioner turns ethnographer: from confidante, resource, bystander, friend, lunch buddy and observed. I describe how the situated body becomes part of procedures and relations in the field and how denying this is to deny intuition, feelings and position as part of research relationships. This reflexive approach acknowledges the researcher’s own knowledge production and epistemic practices required to work through the difficulties and tensions that emerge from practitioner relationships. I conclude that, through reflexive analysis that avoids self-absorption, practitioner ethnographers can clarify findings and provide a trace of intellectual and social paths that lead to conclusions made.
AB - Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two UK hospitals during periods of technological change, I explore the multiplicity of roles performed when a practitioner turns ethnographer: from confidante, resource, bystander, friend, lunch buddy and observed. I describe how the situated body becomes part of procedures and relations in the field and how denying this is to deny intuition, feelings and position as part of research relationships. This reflexive approach acknowledges the researcher’s own knowledge production and epistemic practices required to work through the difficulties and tensions that emerge from practitioner relationships. I conclude that, through reflexive analysis that avoids self-absorption, practitioner ethnographers can clarify findings and provide a trace of intellectual and social paths that lead to conclusions made.
KW - Radiotherapy
KW - Actor Network Theory
KW - Science and Technology Studies
KW - Ethnography
KW - Image Guided Radiotherapy
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783319893969
SP - 103
EP - 121
BT - Ethnographies and Health
A2 - Garnett, Emma
A2 - Reynolds, Joanna
A2 - Milton, Sarah
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -