Dilemmas of Justification in the Qualitative Study of Intimate Matters: Examples from Namibia

Britt Pinkowski Tersbøl

Dilemmas of Justification in the Qualitative Study of Intimate Matters: Examples from Namibia

Department of Immunology and Microbiology

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the special obligation researchers have to consider carefully the ethical and moral aspects of their work when undertaking qualitative field research on intimate matters. The chapter argues that the term "justification" is central to a discussion of several dimensions of ethics in the various phases of research, from the conception of a research idea to the dissimination of research results.

Translated title of the contribution	Overvejelser om Berrettigelsen af Kvalitative Studier af Intimsfæren : Eksempler fra Namibia
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studying Intimate Matters : methodological challenges in studies of gender, sexuality and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa
Number of pages	29
Place of Publication	Kampala
Publisher	Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda
Publication date	2010
Edition	1
Pages	182-211
Chapter	10
ISBN (Print)	978-9970-02-999-0
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

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Dilemmas of Justification in the Qualitative Study of Intimate Matters : Examples from Namibia. / Tersbøl, Britt Pinkowski.

Studying Intimate Matters: methodological challenges in studies of gender, sexuality and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa . 1. ed. Kampala : Fountain Publishers, Kampala, Uganda, 2010. p. 182-211.

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