Hospital Ethnography:Theory,Methodology,and Indigenous Exploration in China
Hospital ethnography emerged in the middle of the 20th century.In the past two decades,it has gradually moved away from the closed and endogenous setting of hospitals to the pursuit of the complexity,diversity and social embeddedness of hospitals.Hospitals not only provide a realistic space for thinking about human vulnerability and concepts such as life,meaning,power,and structure,but also open a window into the social culture of the countries and regions in which they are located.This paper reviews the basic framework of hospital ethnography from both theoretical and methodological dimensions,and then discusses the characteristics and directions of indigenous exploration.By doing so,it leads to the emergence of more hospital ethnography works that can not only comply with academic ethics but also provide keen insights,and serve as a reference for ethnography research in other institutions.
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