Disaster Research “Methics”: Ethical and Methodological Considerations of Researching Disaster-Affected Populations

• Published in: The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) Vol. 64; no. 8; pp. 1050 - 1065
• Main Author: Van Brown, Bethany L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2020; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Disaster studies; Disasters; Disruption; Domestic violence; Ethical dilemmas; Ethics; Fieldwork; Hurricanes; Methodological problems; Primacy; Research ethics; Research methodology; research methods; natural hazards; ethics; social sciences; disasters

How we do research directly affects what we know about the subject matter under study. While the study of disaster events continues to grow, rigorous inquiry on disaster research methodology is limited because it is confounded by the disruption a disaster presents. Yet it is precisely at that point...