Anticipating Doing a Study With Dying Patients: An Autoethnography on Researcher Well-Being Vrije Universiteit Brussel
It is a well known problem that qualitative researchers in the social health sciences are potentially at risk of experiencing emotional burden when confronted with sensitive topics, such as death and dying. A number of research papers and reviews suggest that self-reflection could be helpful in dealing with the associated emotional burden. These publications however typically mention strategies that deal with the problem when emotional burden ...