HLTC22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnography, Assisted Suicide, Organ Donation
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It"s subjective; open to interpretation; doesn"t make claims that what it"s discovering is universally true nor replicable. Allows people to speak in their own voice. Triangulation - examining diff perspectives to id where there is agreement among respondents. Put favourable responses and find what"s similar about them. Way to explore attitudes and experiences of non- random samples and people who fit a particular profile. Cognitive interviews often not useful on their own helpful for part of larger study. Hltb01 page 1 helpful for part of larger study. Concerns with how research deals with strong emotions from subjects. People before us had more experience with death. Children died from infections at really young age. See # of advances in 2 areas specifically drastically reduce death in early adulthood: Why do we live as long as we do. If your parents don"t chances are you won"t either. The survival of species depends on members reproducing and having offspring that do the same.
