Faculty of Health Sciences,School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2012 Jun;22(6):859-67. doi: 10.1177/1049732311425049. Epub 2011 Nov 7.
Recently, health care workers (researchers, academics, policy writers, clinicians) have begun to view ethnography as an acceptable research methodology for informing public health work. This corresponds with a change in public health practice toward population health, wherein identifiable groups are examined to identify the group-level and contextual factors that affect their health statuses. Although population health-based methodological and outcomes-focused examinations have already occurred regarding ethnography, no extant literature scrutinizes the incorporation of ethnography into mainstream public and population health work from a sociopolitical viewpoint. Consequently, such an investigation occurs here using Foucault's concepts of discipline and Lupton's advancement of Foucault's ideas about the imperative of health. The outcome of this investigation is the assertion that ethnography is a strategic method for disciplining populations that do not respect the imperative of health. In other words, ethnography helps generate the data that can be used to normalize large groups of people.
最近，医疗保健工作者（研究人员、学者、政策制定者、临床医生）开始将民族志视为一种可接受的研究方法，用于为公共卫生工作提供信息。这与公共卫生实践向人口健康的转变是一致的，在人口健康中，对可识别的群体进行检查，以确定影响他们健康状况的群体层面和背景因素。尽管已经对基于人口健康的民族志方法和以结果为导向的民族志进行了研究，但没有现存的文献从社会政治角度仔细审查将民族志纳入主流公共和人口卫生工作的情况。因此，这里使用福柯的纪律概念和 Lupton 对福柯关于健康命令的思想的推进，进行了这样的调查。调查的结果是，民族志是一种对不尊重健康命令的人群进行纪律约束的策略方法。换句话说，民族志有助于生成可用于使大量人群正常化的数据。
