@inbook{70035960c30342dbadb5abb2e8338296,
title = "Contextualizing Ethical Dilemmas: Ethnography for Bioethics",
abstract = "Ethnography is a qualitative, naturalistic research method derived from the anthropological tradition. Ethnography uses participant observation supplemented by other research methods to gain holistic understandings of cultural groups' beliefs and behaviors. Ethnography contributes to bioethics by: (1) locating bioethical dilemmas in their social, political, economic, and ideological contexts; (2) explicating the beliefs and behaviors of involved individuals; (3) making tacit knowledge explicit; (4) highlighting differences between ideal norms and actual behaviors; (5) identifying previously unrecognized phenomena; and (6) generating new questions for research. More comparative and longitudinal ethnographic research can contribute to better understanding of and responses to bioethical dilemmas.",
author = "Gordon, {Elisa J.} and Levin, {Betty Wolder}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by grant DK063953 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (EJG). We thank Becky Codner and Elizabeth Schilling for their research assistance, and Laura Siminoff Ph.D. and Liva Jacoby, Ph.D. for their helpful suggestions with this manuscript. ",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1016/S1479-3709(07)11004-9",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0762312661",
series = "Advances in Bioethics",
pages = "83--116",
editor = "Liva Jacoby and Laura Siminoff",
booktitle = "Empirical Methods for Bioethics",
}