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Mental health, ethnography and the body
Author(s) -
Parr Hester
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00045.x
Subject(s) - covert , embodied cognition , ethnography , presentation (obstetrics) , mental health , sociology , space (punctuation) , gender studies , epistemology , psychology , anthropology , medicine , computer science , linguistics , psychotherapist , philosophy , radiology , operating system
Summary Covert ethnographic research materials are used to highlight different individuals’ embodied configurations of time and space (in this case people with mental health problems). Research relationships that revolve around body presentation and body movement are then examined. The problematic associations between covert ethnography and feminist methodologies are also addressed.