"Do Thyself No Harm": Protecting ourselves as autoethnographers

Journal of Research Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chatham Carpenter, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Autoethnography; Ethics; Meta autoethnography; Writing stories

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449271465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1712851X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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