Researching the Vulnerable: A Guide to Sensitive Research Methods

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SAGE Publications, 2007 M01 19 - 256 pages
This book takes as its starting point the particular considerations and sensitivities of being a researcher faced with a subject group at the margins of society, and explores the ethical, practical, and methodological implications of working with such groups. Author Pranee Liamputtong explores qualitative methods using examples, drawn from around the world, and from the wide variety of contexts that might count as 'researching the vulnerable'. Numerous salient points for the conduct of research within vulnerable groups of people, including ethical and moral issues, are considered, and discussed in the context of sensitive and innovative research methods.
 

Contents

Moral and Ethical Issues In Researching
23
The Sensitive and Vulnerable Researcher
71
Traditional Interviewing Research Methods
95
Flexible and Collaborative Investigative Methods
118
Innovative and Alternative Research Methods
140
RePresentation of Vulnerable Voices Writing
164
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Professor Pranee Liamputtong is professor of public health, at the School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her particular interests include issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing, motherhood, infant feeding practices, and reproductive and sexual health. Her current research also includes HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and sexuality. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. She is a qualitative researcher, and written and edited a number of research method books. Two of her methods books have been adopted widely nationally and internationally, and these include Qualitative Research Methods, 4th ed (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Research Methods in Health: Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010, 2013, 2017).

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