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This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process. There is now a plethora of disciplinary engagements with ethnography around the topic of health, including anthropology, sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and in health care professions such as nursing and occupational therapy. This dynamic and evolving landscape means ethnography and health are entangled in new and different ways, providing a timely opportunity to explore what these entanglements do and affect in the social production of knowledge. Rather than discussing the strengths (and limitations) of ethnography for engaging with health, the book asks: what does ethnography enable, make visible and possible for knowing and doing health in contemporary research settings and beyond?
About the author
Emma Garnett is a Research Fellow at the School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences at King’s College London, UK. Her ethnographic work has explored the socio-material practices of research in environmental health science and citizen science. She has published on interdisciplinarity, big data and post-humanist approaches to global health.
Joanna Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in Social Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has a background in social anthropology and public health, and her current research interests include health inequalities, the making of public health knowledge through evaluation, and the fringes of ‘health’ and its intersections with other domains of policy and decision making.
Sarah Milton is a Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. Her interests are in ageing, gender and local practices of public health in the UK. She has published on later life sexualities, and ageing, wellbeing and welfare in the context of austerity.
Summary
This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process. There is now a plethora of disciplinary engagements with ethnography around the topic of health, including anthropology, sociology, geography, science and technology studies, and in health care professions such as nursing and occupational therapy. This dynamic and evolving landscape means ethnography and health are entangled in new and different ways, providing a timely opportunity to explore what these entanglements do and affect in the social production of knowledge. Rather than discussing the strengths (and limitations) of ethnography for engaging with health, the book asks: what does ethnography enable, make visible and possible for knowing and doing health in contemporary research settings and beyond?
