Watering down ethnography

Where ethnography originated in exploration of the exotic and unknown 'other', it can now be used in local spaces, and indeed, in auto-ethnographic modes to understand the self as subject. 5 But what is the difference between writing an autobiography or a descriptive piece and something et...

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Published inBMJ quality & safety Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 554 - 555
Main Author Jowsey, Tanisha
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.07.2016
Subjects
Anthropology
Ethnography
Methods
Patient safety
Quality
Studies
Training
Medical education
Hospital medicine
Social sciences
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Summary:Where ethnography originated in exploration of the exotic and unknown 'other', it can now be used in local spaces, and indeed, in auto-ethnographic modes to understand the self as subject. 5 But what is the difference between writing an autobiography or a descriptive piece and something ethnographic? 6 Lamba et al write that two of the three authors (ARL and KL) had special training in quality and safety but in this article no mention is made of the ethnographic training, or the ethnographic methods or any ethnographic theoretical stance.
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ISSN:2044-5415
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2044-5423
DOI:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005062