Qualitative inquiry, ethics, and politics of evidence: Working within these spaces rather than being worked over by them

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1051-1059

  Cheek, Julianne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Funded research; IRBs; Market driven research; Politics of evidence; Qualitative inquiry

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248990743     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800407308227     Document Type: Article

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