May Menassa, Journalist and Author

Henry Mayhew: journalist, social investigator, and foreshadower of qualitative research.

As a journalist, Henry Mayhew recorded daily life in London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His approach remains of interest to historians and social scientists today in that it foreshadowed qualitative research. The article highlights methodological aspects of Mayhew's investigations and analyzes two of his reports, one on a cholera outbreak and the other on a female street vendo...

An investigative journalist looks at medical ethics.

Campbell criticizes Britain's medical and research community and the General Medical Council (GMC) for their lack of initiative in investigating the activities of Drs. James Sharp and Jabar Sultan. Sharp and Sultan conducted a series of highly-publicized but unethical and potentially harmful experiments with private patients that was eventually brought to public attention by Campbell's report ...

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A Scientist and a Journalist Walk into a Bar…

Who are science journalists, and how can journalists and research scientists work together to improve science communication?