On ‘being there’

A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman

Authors

  • Rebecca Dimond Cardiff University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.19753

Keywords:

Forum Discussion

Author Biography

  • Rebecca Dimond, Cardiff University

    Rebecca is a lecturer and researcher in medical sociology. She is a qualitative researcher, her interests include classification of genetic syndromes and their consequences; reproductive technologies; sociology of donation; and patient, family and professional perspectives. Before taking up her teaching role, Rebecca was awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant to explore the development of reproductive technologies involving mitochondria donation. Her PhD, completed in 2011, examined the social construction of a rare genetic disorder, 22q11 deletion syndrome. This was a multi-sited ethnography, drawing on observation of clinical consultations and conferences, and interviews with families and health professionals.

References

Collins, Harry (2004) Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dimond, Rebecca (2014) Parent-led conferences as sites of medical work. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 18 (6): 631–645.

Dimond, Rebecca, Andrew Bartlett and Jamie T. Lewis (2015) What binds biosociality? The collective effervescence of the parent conference. Social Science & Medicine 126: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.12.005

Durkheim, Emile 2001 [1912]. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Trans. Carol Cosman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

González-Santos, Sandra and Rebecca Dimond (2015) Medical and scientific conferences as sites of sociological interest: A review of the field. Sociology Compass 9 (3): 235–245.

Keleman Saxena, Alder and Jennifer Johnson (2020) Cues for ethnography in pandamning times: Thinking with digital sociality in the Covid-19 pandemic. Somatosphere, 31 May. Online: http://somatosphere.net/2020/ethnography-in-pandamning-times.html/

Richmond, Marsha (2006) The 1909 Darwin celebration re-examining evolution in the light of Mendel, mutation, and meiosis. Isis 97 (3): 447–484.

Downloads

Published

2021-09-29

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Forum Discussion

License

copyright Equinox Publishing Ltd.

How to Cite

Dimond, R. (2021). On ‘being there’: A rejoinder to ‘Collecting qualitative data during a pandemic’ by David Silverman. Communication and Medicine, 17(2), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.19753