Chapter 7 Naughty knickers, stick-on nipples and Mrs Doubtfire: The ‘humourous’ talk of post-mastectomy women

Abstract

Ethnographic interviews are often favoured when examining sensitive issues, such as patients' accounts of their illness experiences. This type of interview enables the researcher to get a deeper (some would argue possibly better) understanding of the experiences that interviewees are recounting, relying on the interviewee to drive the focus of the conversation rather than the researcher determining what is discussed and shared.

Citation

Rowley, E. (2010), "Chapter 7 Naughty knickers, stick-on nipples and Mrs Doubtfire: The ‘humourous’ talk of post-mastectomy women", Hillyard, S. (Ed.) New Frontiers in Ethnography (Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 125-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1042-3192(2010)0000011010