"Three in the Room": Embodiment, Disclosure, and Vulnerability in Qualitative Research.
Qual Health Res
; 25(12): 1689-99, 2015 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25576481
ABSTRACT
The researcher's body in qualitative research is often absented, an absence that can render deceptively tidy research accounts. In this article, I reflect on the interplay of embodiment and disclosure in the interview dynamic and the way in which my body became an object of inquiry in the research process. Three qualitative studies inform the article the first exploring the experiences of 40 people living with hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia, the second comprising life-history interviews with 38 people who inject drugs in London, and the third following 27 people through hepatitis C treatment in London. Bodily and verbal disclosures of my history, as someone with/without hepatitis C and a former heroin user, affected the energy of the interview dynamic, also embodied understandings of illness and drug use. Disclosure can enhance researcher vulnerability and I close with reflection on the ethical implications of "enhanced rapport" in the research situation.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Research Personnel
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Interviews as Topic
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Disclosure
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Researcher-Subject Relations
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Qualitative Research
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
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Oceania
Language:
En
Journal:
Qual Health Res
Journal subject:
ENFERMAGEM
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom