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Author Liamputtong, P

Title Researching the Vulnerable : a Guide to Sensitive Research Methods
Published London : Sage Publications, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Childhood Memory; Chapter 1 -- The Sensitive Researcher: Introduction to Researching Vulnerable People; Chapter 2 -- Moral and Ethical Issues in Researching Vulnerable People; Chapter 3 -- The Vulnerable Research Participants: Procedural Sensibilities; Chapter 4 -- The Sensitive and Vulnerable Researcher; Chapter 5 -- Traditional Interviewing Research Methods Appropriate for Researching Vulnerable People; Chapter 6 -- Flexible and Collaborative Investigative Methods; Chapter 7 -- Innovative and Alternative Research Methods in Consideration
Chapter 8 -- (Re)Presentation of Vulnerable Voices -- Writing Research FindingsA Closing Word ... For Now; Glossary; References; Index
Summary Taking as its starting point the particular considerations and sensitivities of being a researcher faced with a subject group at the margins of society, this text explores the ethical, practical and methodological implications of working with such groups
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Subject Marginality, Social -- Research.
Social groups -- Research.
Social sciences -- Research.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1847878377 (electronic bk.)
9781847878373 (electronic bk.)