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Ethnography: treating the familiar as strange

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The Social Meaning of Midwifery

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Ethnography is a very special type of research method that is particularly suited to the complex task of studying health professionals at work. As Kirkham (1992) has so clearly described it is a method used to study the social world of midwifery in its natural state, as it happens and where and as it is.

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  1. Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    Sheila C. Hunt (Head of Midwifery Education)

  2. University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    Anthea Symonds (Lecturer in Social Policy)

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  1. Sheila C. Hunt
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© 1995 Sheila Hunt and Anthea Symonds

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Hunt, S.C., Symonds, A. (1995). Ethnography: treating the familiar as strange. In: The Social Meaning of Midwifery. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13411-3_3

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13411-3_3

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