An ethic of analysis: an argument for critical analysis of research interviews as an ethical practice.
Nursing literature is replete with discussions about the ethics of research interviews. These largely involve questions of method, and how careful study design and data collection technique can render studies more ethical. Analysis, the perennial black box of the research process, is rarely discussed as an ethical practice. In this paper, I introduce the idea that analysis itself is an ethical practice. Specifically, I argue that political discourse analysis of research interviews is an ethical practice. I use examples from my own research in a prison control unit to illustrate what this might look like, and what is at stake.
Cloyes
Kristin Gates
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University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. kristin.cloyes@nurs.utah.edu
D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000941:ethics*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000941:ethics*; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D011330:Prisons / Q000941:ethics; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012923:Social Class; D012930:Social Dominance; D012934:Social Isolation