Special Issue - Anthropology & Medicine

Anthropology & Medicine
Special Issue on When the Field is a Ward or a Clinic: Hospital Ethnography

Guest Editors:
Debbi Long, Cynthia Hunter and Sjaak van der Geest

Anthropology & Medicine is an interdisciplinary journal which expands upon the growing theory and research linking anthropology with medicine. This special issue brings together articles from the Hospital Ethnography conference panel at the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2006. It is international and cross-cultural in scope, including research undertaken in urban and rural Australia, Kenya and Denmark. The Guest Editors chose the articles because of their ethnographic quality and broad-range of interest.

Introduction

When the field is a ward or a clinic: Hospital ethnography
Debbi Long, Cynthia Hunter and Sjaak van der Geest

Research Articles

Negotiated interactive observation: Doing fieldwork in hospital settings
Gitte Wind

'Untangling the web of critical incidents': Ethnography in a paediatric setting
Cynthia L. Hunter, Kaye Spence and Adam Scheinberg

What's in a rehab? Ethnographic evaluation research in Indigenous Australian residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres
Richard Chenhall

Patients' perspectives on hospitalisation: Experiences from a cancer ward in Kenya
Benson A. Mulemi

Death dwells in spaces: Bodies in the hospital mortuary
Philomena A. Horsley

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