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  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Background:

  • The digital age emphasizes automation and digitization in research.
  • Historical research often relies on interviews as evidence.
  • There's a need to explore the process of interviewing itself.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the value of the interviewing process in historical research.
  • To demonstrate how interviewing aids in understanding scientific networks and archival needs.
  • To explore the inherently human and social aspects of conducting interviews.

Main Methods:

  • Ethnographic approach through conversations and interviews.
  • Analysis of the practice of interviewing as a relational mode of knowing.
  • Examination of epistemological questions in historical writing.

Main Results:

  • Interviewing is useful for charting scientific networks and generating archival questions prior to use as evidence.
  • The practice of interviewing is inherently human, social, and staged, resisting formalization.
  • Conducting interviews offers a method for practicing reflexivity in historical claims.

Conclusions:

  • Incorporating research interviews enriches the methodological repertoire of the history of science and medicine.
  • The practice of interviewing encourages critical examination of the narrative foundations of historical claims.
  • This approach may challenge the discipline's traditional emphasis on naturalism.