Watering down ethnography

• Published in: BMJ quality & safety Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 554 - 555
• Main Author: Jowsey, Tanisha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Anthropology; Ethnography; Methods; Patient safety; Quality; Studies; Training; Medical education; Hospital medicine; Social sciences

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...