Plummer (2001) describes ethical debates in qualitative research as
being a process marked by ambivalence, situated within actual experiences,
and understood as a “struggling with the self” but a struggle that must be
shared publicly because “we need stories and narratives of research ethics
to help fashion our own research lives” (p. 229). It is our hope that we have
done that here. Following Guillemin and Gillam (2004), we see our four
cases as “ethically important moments” (p. 262) that call for a reflexive
practice, and it is our aim to foster that.