TY  - CHAP
AB  - Ethnography is a qualitative, naturalistic research method derived from the anthropological tradition. Ethnography uses participant observation supplemented by other research methods to gain holistic understandings of cultural groups’ beliefs and behaviors. Ethnography contributes to bioethics by: (1) locating bioethical dilemmas in their social, political, economic, and ideological contexts; (2) explicating the beliefs and behaviors of involved individuals; (3) making tacit knowledge explicit; (4) highlighting differences between ideal norms and actual behaviors; (5) identifying previously unrecognized phenomena; and (6) generating new questions for research. More comparative and longitudinal ethnographic research can contribute to better understanding of and responses to bioethical dilemmas.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-0-7623-1266-5, 978-1-84950-383-9/1479-3709
DO  - 10.1016/S1479-3709(07)11004-9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3709(07)11004-9
AU  - Gordon Elisa J.
AU  - Wolder Levin Betty
ED  - Liva Jacoby
ED  - Laura A. Siminoff
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - Contextualizing Ethical Dilemmas: Ethnography for Bioethics
T2  - Empirical Methods for Bioethics: A Primer
T3  - Advances in Bioethics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 83
EP  - 116
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -