Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography

Deborah Davidson

Sociological Research Online, 2011, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation ( DAVIDSON 2007 ) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities – the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing qualitative research grounded in my own experience of perinatal loss. With my dissertation now a fait a complete , reflecting back on my research, my use of autoethnography at this point allows a return to a story that has already happened and involves “the construction and reconstruction’ of my personal experiences as narratives’ ( AUTREY 2003 : 10). Taking this narrative turn, my enquiry here shifts auto/biography to autoethnography as a mode of enquiry.

Keywords: Qualitative Research; Feminist Research; Perinatal Loss and Grief; Bereavement; Experience; Auto/biography; Autoethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.2293

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