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

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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.

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  • Deborah Davidson, 2011. "Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 16(1), pages 1-8, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:16:y:2011:i:1:p:1-8
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.2293
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    1. Lovell, Alice, 1983. "Some questions of identity: Late miscarriage, stillbirth and perinatal loss," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 17(11), pages 755-761, January.
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