Whatever happened to the ‘social’ science in Social Science &amp; Medicine? On golden anniversaries and gold standards

Bell, Kirsten

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.009

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“…This recognition of the relationality of knowledge production was widely taken up within socio-cultural anthropology, but less broadly influential in sociology, where critiques of mainstream sociological knowledge production made fewer strides in transforming the discipline as a whole. Although incorporated into qualitative sociology to some degree, the rise of qualitative research as a pan-disciplinary 'method' has arguably served to reinforce rather than challenge the prevailing view of relationality, and the positivism that underwrites it (see Bell, 2018, for an illustration).…”

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The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics

Bell

2018

Ethnography

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Perhaps the most unique feature of ethnographic fieldwork is the distinctive form of relationality it entails, where the ethnographer's identity as a researcher is not fixed in the way typical of most other forms of research. In this paper, I explore how this 'undesigned relationality' is understood, both in procedural ethics frameworks and by the different disciplines that have come to claim a stake in the 'method' itself. Demonstrating that the ethical issues it entails are primarily conceptualized via the lens of the 'dual role', I use this as a means of exploring the ideal relationship between researcher and subject that procedural ethics frameworks are premised upon. I go on to explore the epistemological differences in ways that ethnographers themselves understand and respond to the multiple forms of relationality that characterize fieldwork and the challenge this poses to the possibility of a pan-disciplinary consensus on ethnographic research ethics. Keywords ethnography, research ethics, dual roles, disciplinarity, relationality 'In this approach [ethnography], there is a profound acknowledgement of the relationality of the human subject. Furthermore, to talk of the "field" is to talk of an entity which is itself relational and not merely spatial' ~ Bob Simpson (2011) 'Ethnographic knowledge is always relational, the product of multiple crosscutting conversations across diverse contexts' ~ Huon Wardle and Paloma Gay y Blasco (2011)

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The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics

Bell

2018

Ethnography

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“…Indeed, rather than being seen as foundational to emerging fields that offer approaches to the 'social', social epidemiology, social psychology, population health, health economics, etc. (Bell, 2018), these fields often ignore the fact that they are actually doing social medicine at all. 4 Rarely is social medicine recognised as both primary and foundational to understanding and intervening in health (Stonington & Holmes, 2006).…”

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Re-imagining global health through social medicine

Adams

Béhague

Caduff

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Global Public Health

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The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.

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Whatever happened to the ‘social’ science in Social Science & Medicine? On golden anniversaries and gold standards

Cited by 2 publications

References 42 publications

The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics

The ‘problem’ of undesigned relationality: Ethnographic fieldwork, dual roles and research ethics

Re-imagining global health through social medicine

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