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splitti g status. These field positio s a e ost ofte ithheld i final publications. Then, the restitution of these often denied or hidden practices highlights the very sensitivity of an emotionally loaded research. The emotional dimension of fieldwork plays a role in making risk a central element of ethnographic practice. The paper investigates hazards and risks through the analysis of three different field o k s e pe ie es o e isio , o o e a d o illegal p atices of hospital nurses, attendants and practitioners). Here, it appears that risk is not an exclusivity of brutal and violent fieldwork situations. Hazards may spring from situations where highly sensitive hidden moral stakes undermine daily inquiries in such a way that the slightest esea he s istake a ge e ate e al a d even physical violence.