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Author(s): Manal Guirguis-Younger, Vivien Runnels, Tim D. Aubry, Jeff Turnbull
Publication Date: 2006
Social autopsy methodology has been useful in uncovering patterns leading to untimely deaths in many different contexts. Although patterns of early deaths have often been detected among individuals who are homeless, social autopsies are particularly difficult to carry out in this population. This paper provides a template for carrying out a social autopsy of persons who died while homeless. The logistical, ethical, and methodological challenges a...

Author(s): Vivien Runnels, Elizabeth Hay, Elyse Sevign, Paddi O'Hara
Publication Date: 2009
This paper focuses on some of the ethical issues which may arise when conducting research in the context of homelessness. These issues are considered from the viewpoints of researchers, research coordinators and interviewers, drawing from their extensive real world experience. In addition to negotiating the complex context of homelessness, community-based homelessness researchers need to address a number of ethical issues in research conception,...