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Children in the Field and Methodological Challenges of Research in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Diane Tober
Diane Tober*
Affiliation:
Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco University of California, Berkeley
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Iranian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Ethnographic Fieldwork in Iran , December 2004 , pp. 643 - 654
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Copyright © 2004 The International Society for Iranian Studies

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Footnotes

She is currently writing a manuscript entitled: “A Path to Isfahan: Iran with my Two Sons.” Another article based on her research is due to be published in an upcoming special edition of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, entitled “‘Fewer Children, Better Life?’ or ‘As Many as God Wants?’: Perceptions and Use of Family Planning Among Iranians and Afghan Refugees in Iran.”

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1 I thank Nooshin Razani, then a medical student at UCSF, for organizing this trip. It included students, physicians, and myself, a medical anthropologist. Invited by the Ministry of Health in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we explored the Iranian Public Health Care System.

2 I thank the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, and my colleagues and hosts, including Dr. Mohammad Jalali and Dr. Mohammad Taghdisi, for their help in facilitating the research and for their hospitality. I also thank the National Science Foundation for their support under Grant No. 0220594, the American Institute for Iranian Studies, and the University of California, San Francisco Academic Senate for their generous support. Any information contained in this article is the opinion of the author and does not reflect the opinions of any of the sponsoring institutes or agencies.

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