Ethical and Epistemological Implications of Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork as a Researcher-cum-Clinician in Brussels, Belgium.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Epub Date: 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2386583

Dirk Lafaut, Lisa Dikomitis

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Abstract

We draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Brussels (Belgium) on the health care experiences of undocumented migrants. We explore the implications of the double position of the ethnographer, who is both a researcher and a practicing doctor. We describe how the intimate knowledge the ethnographer-cum-clinician holds about the health care system influenced and shaped the data collection, analysis and subsequent policy recommendations. We examine the ethical dilemmas in conducting research from an engaged position about care practices toward vulnerable populations in one's own professional field. We conclude with recommendations on how to challenge and interrupt complexities faced by multi-positioned ethnographers.

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在比利时布鲁塞尔以研究员兼临床医生的身份开展人种学田野调查的伦理和认识论影响。

我们借鉴了在布鲁塞尔（比利时）开展的关于无证移民医疗经历的人种学实地调查。我们探讨了身兼研究者和执业医生双重身份的人种学家的意义。我们描述了人种学家兼医生对医疗保健系统的深入了解如何影响和塑造了数据收集、分析和随后的政策建议。我们探讨了在自己的专业领域内，以参与性的立场对弱势人群的医疗实践进行研究时所面临的道德困境。最后，我们就如何挑战和打断多重立场民族志学者所面临的复杂问题提出了建议。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.