Chapter 1
The one-minute ethicist
Why write the text, the cartoons [Figures 1 and 2] say it all.
Professor Emeritus
Figure 1 documents the origin of this book. It illustrates a real event when one of the authors was teaching a postgraduate class in qualitative research ethics at the University of Otago in 2016. The class began on day one with a provocation to see if the five postgraduate students could identify ethical conundrums that may not sit well with them and to see if they could come up with some solutions to this conundrum. As the cartoon shows, they did. This book developed from that single moment. Tolich assigned no reading for the first class. His goal was to make the students central to their own learning (Harland & Wald, ...
