The Ethnographic Interview: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Developing an Ethnographic Disposition in Health Research.
Interviews are central to the health ethnographers' toolkit. In this article, we offer a critical engagement with methodological literature coupled with reflective examples from our own research, in order to articulate the value of the ethnographic interview in health research. We contribute to lite...
| Publicado en: | Qualitative Health Research Vol. 35; no. 13; pp. 1395 - 1410 |
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| Formato: | questions and answers Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2025
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