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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 1, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(2):239-241; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi034
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Editorial

Photography as a metaphor for (epidemiological) research

Mary Shaw

Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol B58 2PR, UK. E-mail: mary.shaw@bristol.ac.uk

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In this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology we include a photoessay by sociologist Phil Mizen entitled ‘Emerging into the light: working children's photo-diaries’.1 The images in this essay were an integral part of research conducted on working children in England and Wales—both a form of data and a conduit for the elicitation of interview data—thereby revealing more and greater details than other methods alone would have generated. These selected images from Mizen's work, and other such photoessays that we are featuring in the International Journal of Epidemiology, show how photographs can be a powerful mode of communication and, hopefully, invoke reflection and discussion. The use of photography in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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