title: Family Research: An Ethnographic Approach: How this approach can work for family health care.
abstract: An ethnographic approach based on in-depth interviewing, naturalistic and participant observation, narrative description, and contextual interpretation is proposed as a tool for family health care research. The multiple meanings of family, both for research clinicians and for society, are considered. The problem of how a family orientation is incorporated into biomedical' health care is discussed.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Stein