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Integrating Ethics with Symbolic Interactionism: The Case of Oncology

Sylvie C. Tourigny

Western Michigan University

Social scientists often relegate ethics to ex post facto considerations and dissociate theory from experientially moral phenomena because it lacks the requisite epistemological tools for an ethic-centered discourse. Research linking individual attributes and access to privilege perpetuates the politics of status-contingent voice and perspective. Therefore, our work has inherently [un]ethical dimensions—more powerful because they remain unarticulated. Drawing from feminist scholarship highlighting the unavoidability of "standpoint" and "perspective" in research, and from data from a 39-month ethnography of ovarian cancer patients, I reveal ethical principles embedded within the Chicago school of symbolic interactionism. This articulation of embodied ethics creates a context wherein ethnographic data reveal themselves as sociopolitical. The vulnerability of respondents emerges; however, they use research participation to identify the multiple layers of their [dis]empowerment. Integrating an ethical mandate within theory and methodology provides an effective analytic tool, and the means to assert a theoretic preference acknowledging respondent entitlement!

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, 163-185 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239400400203
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