Land mines in the field

dc.contributor.authorThorne, S.
dc.contributor.authorDarbyshire, P.
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>In this commentary, the authors encourage a renewed enthusiasm for attention to quality criteria in qualitative health research by poking fun at what they understand to be patterns and themes emerging from data collected in their respective extensive “fieldwork” experiences within the genre. Conceptualizing some of the particularly problematic interpretive turns as land mines in the field (or, alternatively, missteps in the dance, cracks in the pottery, wrong turns in the journey, weeds in the garden, or dropped stitches in the quilt), they challenge researchers’ collective relationship to both factual and metaphoric empirical claims. With a warning to those unaccustomed to self-deprecating humor, the authors challenge all to pay serious heed to what does and does not constitute rigorous, high-quality, empirical science within the qualitative tradition.</jats:p>
dc.identifier.citationQualitative Health Research, 2005; 15(8):1105-1113
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1049732305278502
dc.identifier.issn1049-7323
dc.identifier.issn1552-7557
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/27919
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.rightsCopyright status unknown
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305278502
dc.subjectqualitative methodology
dc.subjectquality criteria
dc.subjectdata analysis
dc.subjectinterpretation
dc.subjectempirical science
dc.titleLand mines in the field
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9915911952501831

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