164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in 1996, this book comprises a number of essays by Paul Atkinson in which he reflects on processes of reading and writing in the social sciences. Topics covered include: ethnographers’ ‘confessions’, an analysis of the style of Erving Goffman, a reflection of his own experiences of re-reading work, and a discussion of the challenges of reading an alien discipline.
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1. Introduction. 2. Ethnography in Perspective. 3. Ethnography: Parody and Pastiche. 4. Supervising the Text. 5. Urban Confessions. 6. At Man’s Best Hospital and the Mug’n’Muffin. 7. Goffman’s Poetics. 8. The Ethnography of a Medical Setting: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. 9. Reading Health Economics. 10. Epilogue.
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Paul Atkinson
