ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the logic of fieldwork and discusses the procedures utilized during the investigation of fieldwork. The major portion of the investigation was carried out through field methods: a body of research strategies and techniques that involves direct contact with social groups and institutions under "natural" living conditions. The chapter describes the specific tactics and techniques that can be brought to bear on fieldwork problems. It details how these techniques were utilized at different stages of the research with reference to different classes of problems. The chapter pays systematic attention to crises and special incidents as ways of further checking the formulations about both the perspectives of Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training Institute (PPI) personnel and the boundaries of the hospital. It sets out to check systematically propositions concerning negotiation and special working arrangements in the hospital. The propositions with which the fieldwork was concerned were primarily qualitative.
