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This handbook is a much-needed and in-depth review of the distinctive set of ethical considerations which accompanies qualitative research. This is particularly crucial given the emergent, dynamic and interactional nature of most qualitative research, which too often allows little time for reflection on the important ethical responsibilities and obligations Contributions from leading international researchers have been carefully organised into six key thematic sections: Part One: Thick Descriptions Of Qualitative Research Ethics Part Two: Qualitative Research Ethics By Technique Part Three: Ethics As Politics Part Four: Qualitative Research Ethics With Vulnerable Groups Part Five: Relational Research Ethics Part Six: Researching Digitally This Handbook is a one-stop resource on qualitative research ethics across the social sciences that draws on the lessons learned and the successful methods for surmounting problems - the tried and true, and the new.
Qualitative Research Ethics with Vulnerable Groups
The chapters in Part IV all address what ethics committees and their regulatory codes classify as vulnerable groups. For example, children, the elderly, and prisoners are all traditionally regarded to be vulnerable. Yet these chapters are not the only discussion of vulnerability. Many other Handbook chapters overlap with vulnerability; the walking interview (Chapter 11)focused on psychiatric forensic patients; visual research in politically sensitive regions (Chapter 12); a later chapter on disaster ethics (Chapter 29) highlights a temporal form of vulnerability in the immediate aftermath of calamitous events affecting a community. Even litigants self-representing in the unfamiliar surroundings of courtroom hearings can be classed as vulnerable. Vulnerability, as Will van den Hoonaard claims, is ubiquitous and his chapter is ...
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