Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Valuing Ethnography in Rehabilitation Practice -- Introduction -- The Value of Ethnography in Rehabilitation -- What to Expect from This Book? -- Summary -- References -- 2 Ethnography in Rehabilitation: Methodological Applications -- Overview of Ethnography as a Methodology -- Ethnography and Its Uses in Understanding Service Users -- Research Methods in Ethnography: The Obvious and the Obscure -- Participant Observation -- Interviewing -- Experimentation: Ethnographic? -- Methodological and Ethical Considerations for Ethnographic Work -- Intervention Versus Retraction: Is the Natural Environment Always 'Natural'? -- Ethnographic Interviewing: Who, Where and When? -- Ensuring Participants Voices Are Represented: Authenticity Versus Tokenistic -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Microethnographic Case Studies: One Phenomenon in Context Scrutinized from Multiple Perspectives -- Introduction -- Case Studies -- Microethnographic Case Studies -- Discharge Planning with Older Adults from One Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting -- Theoretical Perspective -- The Phenomenon of Study in This Microethnographic Case Study -- The Study Context -- Participants' Recruitment -- Data Generation -- Analysis -- Study Results -- Benefits and Challenges of Using Microethnographic Case Studies -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Ethics of Conducting Research on People with Disabilities or in Rehabilitation -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects -- Ethical Dilemmas in Research with Human Subjects -- Conducting Research on People with Disabilities or in Rehabilitation -- Conducting Ethnographic Research on People with Disabilities or in Rehabilitation -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Institutional Ethnography -- Introduction.