Institutional ethnography is a method of inquiry that brings attention to people’s everyday work while simultaneously highlighting broader sites of administration and governance that may be organising that work. The purpose of this paper is to argue that the integration of institutional ethnography in health information practice research represents an important shift in the way that Library and Information Science professionals and researchers study and understand these practices.,This paper first explores the key tenets and conceptual underpinnings of Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography, illuminating the importance of moving between translocal and the local contexts and identifying ruling relations. Drawing from a library and information science study that combined interviews and textual analyses to examine the social organisation of family caregivers’ health-related information work, the paper then explores the affordances of starting in the local particularities and then moving outwards to the translocal.,The paper concludes with an overall assessment of what institutional ethnography can contribute to investigations of health information practices. By pushing from the local to the translocal, institutional ethnography enables a questioning of existing library and information science conceptualisations of context and of reappraising the everyday-life information seeking work/non-work dichotomy. Ultimately, in considering both the local and the translocal, institutional ethnography casts a wider net on understanding individuals’ health information practices.,With only two retrieved studies that combine institutional ethnography with the study of health information practices, this paper offers health information practice researchers a new method of inquiry in which to reframe the application of methods used.

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考虑本地和跨本地

机构人种学是一种探究方法，可以引起人们对日常工作的关注，同时突出显示可能在组织工作的更广泛的行政管理领域。本文旨在论证将民族志学纳入健康信息实践研究是图书馆和信息科学专业人士和研究人员研究和理解这些实践的方式的重要转变。本文首先探讨了关键宗旨和概念多萝西·史密斯（Dorothy Smith）制度民族志的基础，阐明了在跨地方环境和地方环境之间转移以及确定统治关系的重要性。通过对图书馆和信息科学研究的研究，结合访谈和文本分析来检查家庭看护人与健康相关的信息工作的社会组织，然后探讨了从当地特色开始，然后再向跨地方移民的能力。本文以对哪些民族志可以有助于健康信息实践调查的总体评估作为结束。通过将民族志从地方推向跨地域，可以对现有的图书馆和信息科学概念提出质疑，并可以重新评估寻求工作/非工作二分法的日常生活信息。最终，在考虑本地和跨本地时，