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Ethical issues for the qualitative researcher: Some critical reflections
Allan Kellehear
Professor of Palliative Care, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, VIC
Abstract
What are among the most important ethical issues which all qualitative researchers must confront? The best way to approach this question is to begin with a short exposition of what constitutes qualitative research so that we can at least check that we all share roughly the same views of that constitution.
From this technical overview we can then describe the common social and political values which underpin such a methodological tradition, and from there we can identify and discuss the common ethical issues which confront this type of research work. This is the organisation I will follow in this review.
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