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Institutional ethnography: a sociology of discovery—in conversation with Dorothy Smith

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  1. Centre for Medical Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

    Grainne P. Kearney, Nigel D. Hart & Jennifer L. Johnston

  2. Sociology and Anthropology and Faculty of Nursing, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada

    Michael K. Corman

  3. Clinical Skills Education Centre, Centre for Medical Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK

    Gerard J. Gormley

  4. Sociology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Dorothy E. Smith

  5. Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Dorothy E. Smith

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Kearney, G.P., Corman, M.K., Gormley, G.J. et al. Institutional ethnography: a sociology of discovery—in conversation with Dorothy Smith. Soc Theory Health 16, 292–306 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-018-0077-2

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