The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.
The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of:
– A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed to the development of thinking in fields relevant to policy and practice in health care.
– A section examining the main theoretical sources drawn on by qualitative researchers.
– A section on specific techniques for the collection of data.
– A section exploring issues relevant to the strategic place of qualitative research in health care environments.
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is an invaluable source of reference for all students, researchers and practitioners with a background in the health professions or health sciences.
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction
PART ONE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
There′s More to Dying Than Death: Qualitative Research on the End-of-Life – Stefan Timmermans
Healer-Patient Interaction: New Mediations in Clinical Relationships – Arthur W. Frank, Michael K. Corman, Jessica A. Gish and Paul Lawton
Qualitative Contributions to the Study of Health Professions and Their Work – Johanne Collin
Why Use Qualitative Methods to Study Health-Care Organizations? Insights from Multilevel Case Studies – Carol A. Caronna
How Country Matters: Studying Health Policy in a Comparative Perspective – Sirpa Wrede
Exploring Social Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Thinking Qualitatively – Gareth Williams and Eva Elliott
PART TWO: THEORY
Theory Matters in Qualitative Health Research – Mita Giacomini
Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Development Research: The Contributions of Anthropology – Rebecca Prentice
What Is Grounded Theory and Where Does It Come from? – Dorothy Pawluch and Elena Neiterman
Qualitative Methods from Psychology – Helen Malson
Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: The Centrality of Interaction – Timothy Halkowski and Virginia Teas Gill
Phenomenology – Carol L. Mc William
Studying Organizations: The Revival of Institutionalism – Karen Staniland
History and Social Change in Health and Medicine – Claire Hooker
PART THREE: COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA
Qualitative Research Review and Synthesis – Jennie Popay and Sara Mallinson
Qualitative Interviewing Techniques and Styles – Susan E. Kelly
Focus Groups – Rosaline S. Barbour
Fieldwork and Participant Observation – Davina Allen
Video-Based Conversation Analysis – Ruth Parry
Practising Discourse Analysis in Healthcare Settings – Srikant Sarangi
Documents in Health Research – Lindsay Prior
Participatory Action Research: Theoretical Perspectives on the Challenges of Researching Action – Louise Potvin, Sherri L. Bisset and Leah Walz
Qualitative Research in Programme Evaluation – Isobel Mac Pherson and Linda Mc Kie
Auto-Ethnography: Making Sense of Personal Illness Journeys – Elizabeth Ettore
Institutional Ethnography – Marie L. Campbell
Visual Methods for Collecting and Analysing Data – Susan E. Bell
Keyword Analysis: A New Tool for Qualitative Research – Clive Seale and Jonathan Charteris-Black
PART FOUR: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Recognizing Quality in Qualitative Research – Kath M. Melia
Mixed Methods Involving Qualitative Research – Alicia O′Cathain
A Practical Guide to Research Ethics – Laura Stark and Adam Hedgecoe
Using Qualitative Research Methods to Inform Health Policy: The Case of Public Deliberation – Julia Abelson
Cross National Qualitative Health Research – Carine Vassy and Richard Keller
PART FIVE: APPLYING QUALITATIVE METHODS
Researching Reproduction Qualitatively: Intersections of Personal and Political – Kereen Reiger and Pranee Liamputtong
Understanding the Shaping, Incorporation and Co-Ordination of Health Technologies through Qualitative Research – Tiago Moreira and Tim Rapley
Transgressive Pleasures: Undertaking Qualitative Research in the Radsex Domain – Dave Holmes, Patrick O′Byrne and Denise Gastaldo
The Challenges and Opportunities of Qualitative Health Research with Children – Ilina Singh and Sinead Keenan
The Dilemmas of Advocacy: The Paradox of Giving in Disability Research – Ruth Pinder
Qualitative Approaches for Studying Environmental Health – Phil Brown
عن المؤلف
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist through Dingwall Enterprises Ltd and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. He draws on more than forty years’ experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £7 million (at 2017 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe’s leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. Robert has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2002 and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health since 2014. He was awarded the 2019 Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community by the Socio-Legal Studies Association.