Hospital Ethnography: Theory, Method, and Ethics

3 Credits

Serves as a primer in the burgeoning area of hospital ethnography, covering its roots, how it continues to evolve, and methodological and ethical issues unique to doing ethnography in clinical settings, through journal articles and monographs. Uses course texts to analyze how hospital ethnography enables insight into broader public policy issues related to topics such as governance, accountability, gender equity, and sectarian conflict. Students produce content for website on best practices.